Temperature Increase

Tecarpuls RF waves induce several thermophysiological responses by the conversion of RF energy into heat energy in tissues:

Rise in tissue temperature (both skin and deep)

Increased tissue temperature has been demonstrated in many studies (going back as far as the 1940’s to the present day) from the application of RF:

Bennett 1941
Kottke et al. 1949
Lehmann, DeLateur, Stonebridge 1969
Weber, Zák, Malec, 1969
Kovach 1973
Valtonen, Lilius, Svinhufvud 1973
Ilja, Neninger, Maria 1974
Verrier, Falconer, Crawford 1977
Davies 1979
Yang & Wang 1979
Auda, Steinert , Elias, 1980
Griffiths et al. 1984
James et al. 1988.
Jan & Lin 1990
Bricknell , Watson 1995
Draper et al. 1999
Garrett, Draper, Knight 2000
Murray & Kitchen 2000
Draper et al. 2013
Hawkes et al. 2013
Kumaran & Watson 2015
Hafen et al. 2019
Masiero et al. 2020

So why are we interested in increasing the temperature? Well according to Lehman (1982) a 1 degree (C) temperature increase gives 13% increased metabolism in cells which increases healing and recovery.

Below are three pictures showing thermal images of temperature increase using Tecarpuls

Before treatment 32.7 degrees (C)

After 1 min of treatment 34.3 degrees (C) a rise of 1.6 degrees (C)

After 2 mins of treatment 35.1 degrees (C) a rise from pre treatment of 2.4 degrees (C)

These results are consistent with Kumaran (2017) who showed temperature increase in this graph:

Here we can see RF, both high and low, increased temperature compared to placebo and control groups. The increase in temperature lasted longer than pulsed shortwave.