Using cold and/or heat therapy to improve circulation, reduce inflammation and promote rehabilitation. Commonly used to treat the symptoms of osteoarthritis, according to the Arthritis Society. Also associated with the use of microwaves to produce deep heat in treating certain forms of cancer.
Heat treatment involving the use of various forms of heat for therapeutic purposes.
Technique mainly used for virus or mycoplasma elimination. Plants are exposed to elevated temperatures as a treatment. Thermotherapy is used alone or in combination with meristem culture or meristem tip culture.
Treatment using temperatures above normal body temperature.
(THER-moh-THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment of disease using heat.
See transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT).
Use of heat to treat a disease or disorder.
Thermotherapy, or therapy by induced localised hyperthermia, may be used as a cancer treatment to kill or weaken tumor cells, with negligible effects on healthy cells. Tumor cells, with a disorganized and compact vascular structure, have difficulty dissipating heat. Hyperthermia may therefore cause cancerous cells to undergo apoptosis in direct response to applied heat, while healthy cells can more easily maintain a normal temperature.