ELECTROTHERAPY

**Definition:** This place covers:

Specially adapted apparatus, instruments, devices, or processes for the following types of therapy:

Components having specialized structural features that limit their use to the apparatus, instruments, or devices for the types of therapy appropriate for this subclass.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Apparatus for diagnosis or surgery combined with, or applicable also as, therapy apparatus -> A61B - Apparatus for radiation diagnosis -> A61B6/00 - Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body (e.g., radiation surgery, electro-surgery) -> A61B18/00 - Instruments, implements, tools, or methods specially adapted so as to limit their use to only animals -> A61D - Apparatus or methods utilizing direct mechanical energy in therapy intended to treat disease or disability -> A61H - Percussion or vibration massage apparatus (e.g. using supersonic vibration) -> A61H23/00 - Apparatus or methods for stimulating specific reflex points by heating or cooling within the cell-life limits -> A61H39/06 - Devices for applying radioactive material to the body -> A61M37/0069 , A61N5/10