electrotherapy
noun
elec·tro·ther·a·py
i-ˌlek-trō-ˈther-ə-pē 
: the therapeutic use of electricity
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The seminary also had a number of offices which were transformed into hospital support rooms, including an electrotherapy room.
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Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
This process, called electrotherapy, works both by attracting immune cells and skin cells to the wound and by boosting cell growth and division.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
The devices are also far more advanced than proof-of-concept stage; the Northwestern device, a transient bandage that uses electrotherapy to both monitor and heal diabetic wounds, is resorbed into the body.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
Hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, delivered by elaborate machines that sent painful jolts of electricity through the body, were also put into use.
—Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022
At Audrey, staff will have a wellness room with many of the tools Brock himself uses: massage, Reiki, acupuncture, cranial electrotherapy stimulation, and light and aroma therapies.
—Howie Kahn, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
And in East Nashville, Tenn., the chef Sean Brock is building a soundproof room in his new culinary compound where employees can escape for a treatment called cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
Her specialties included hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, the use of water and electricity to treat illnesses and diseases.
—Louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 3 Feb. 2020
Here’s a 1996 patent (one of many) for an Interferential stimulator for applying localized electrotherapy stimulation.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
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Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
This process, called electrotherapy, works both by attracting immune cells and skin cells to the wound and by boosting cell growth and division.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 June 2023
The devices are also far more advanced than proof-of-concept stage; the Northwestern device, a transient bandage that uses electrotherapy to both monitor and heal diabetic wounds, is resorbed into the body.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2023
Hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, delivered by elaborate machines that sent painful jolts of electricity through the body, were also put into use.
—Daphne Merkin, The Atlantic, 10 July 2022
At Audrey, staff will have a wellness room with many of the tools Brock himself uses: massage, Reiki, acupuncture, cranial electrotherapy stimulation, and light and aroma therapies.
—Howie Kahn, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
And in East Nashville, Tenn., the chef Sean Brock is building a soundproof room in his new culinary compound where employees can escape for a treatment called cranial electrotherapy stimulation.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
Her specialties included hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, the use of water and electricity to treat illnesses and diseases.
—Louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 3 Feb. 2020
Here’s a 1996 patent (one of many) for an Interferential stimulator for applying localized electrotherapy stimulation.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
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electrotherapy
noun
elec·tro·ther·a·py
-ˈther-ə-pē
plural electrotherapies
: treatment of disease by means of electricity (as in diathermy)
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