Evidence-Based Electrotherapy: Theory and Practice - Softcover

Van Kerkhof, Pieter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3662730189 ISBN 13: 9783662730188

Publisher: Springer, 2026

Synopsis

Knowledge that electrifies!

This textbook is a practical guide that provides physiotherapists, masseur-balneotherapists, massage therapists, and occupational therapists with the perfect foundation for the effective use of electrotherapeutic modalities. It not only delivers well-founded expertise, but also takes your therapeutic know-how to the next level—clearly structured, practice-oriented, and based on the latest research.

Contents include:

• Pain, pain inhibition, and pain processing

• Physical principles: electricity, sound, laser, and more
• Modalities: TENS, muscle stimulation, low-frequency stimulation and Galvanic current, laser, ultrasound, high-frequency therapy
• An additional chapter on risk management, including implementation, sources of error, and key questions

Plus: treatment protocols and assessment forms available as practical downloadable supplementary material.

New in the 2nd edition: Updated, revised, and expanded—based on the latest scientific evidence.

About this title

About the Author

Pieter van Kerkhof, MSc (Physiotherapy) is a Dutch licensed physiotherapist. He is a former head of department at several Swiss clinics and has worked, among other roles, as an electrotherapy teacher and as a lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur. He has published on the topic of systematic application and dosage of ultrasound and writes about electrotherapy on his blog, Physiosupport.org.

From the Back Cover

Knowledge that electrifies!

This textbook is a practical guide that provides physiotherapists, masseur-balneotherapists, massage therapists, and occupational therapists with the perfect foundation for the effective use of electrotherapeutic modalities. It not only delivers well-founded expertise, but also takes your therapeutic know-how to the next level—clearly structured, practice-oriented, and based on the latest research.

Contents include:

• Pain, pain inhibition, and pain processing

• Physical principles: electricity, sound, laser, and more
• Modalities: TENS, muscle stimulation, low-frequency stimulation and Galvanic current, laser, ultrasound, high-frequency therapy
• An additional chapter on risk management, including implementation, sources of error, and key questions

Plus: treatment protocols and assessment forms available as practical downloadable supplementary material.

New in the 2nd edition: Updated, revised, and expanded—based on the latest scientific evidence.

Pieter van Kerkhof, MSc (Physiotherapy) is a Dutch licensed physiotherapist. He is a former head of department at several Swiss clinics and has worked, among other roles, as an electrotherapy teacher and as a lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur. He has published on the topic of systematic application and dosage of ultrasound and writes about electrotherapy on his blog, Physiosupport.org.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3662730189
• ISBN 13: 9783662730188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302