Written by Hulet Smith, OT
An integral partner to clinicians who treat soft tissue and musculoskeletal disorders, Richmar manufactures a diverse line of innovative and superior quality medical devices and accessories, along with pharmaceutical products.
Founded under the name of Medco in 1951, this company advanced the medical field with the first combination stim and ultrasound machine, along with being the first to provide an electrotherapy device with a built-in touch screen.
Richmar is led by a team of engineers focused on “engineering tomorrow’s healthcare” to create medical equipment for an ever-evolving healthcare system.
Proudly making their products in the USA, Richmar manufactures a diverse line of popular medical devices well-loved by physical therapists, chiropractors, sports medicine professionals, athletic trainers, and other healthcare providers.
Now a part of Compass Health Brands, Richmar continues to provide state-of-the-art medical equipment that is robust and reliable, complying to ISO13485 and cGMP manufacturing standards.
This global company provides exceptional devices for electrotherapies, such as electrostimulation, therapeutic ultrasound, thermal therapy, diathermy, cold laser therapy, and deep oscillation, offering dependable and precise ease-of-use for the clinician, and the utmost in healing and relief for the patient.
Defined as the medical practice of using devices to apply low-frequency bioelectrical impulses or currents through conductive electrode pads attached to the skin, electrotherapy helps to block the pain signal to the brain. It’s also employed to enhance the circulation of the blood, mend damaged tissues, and prevent atrophying of the muscles.
Including a diverse range of products, electrotherapy devices include neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), therapeutic ultrasound, interferential therapy (IF), laser therapy, diathermy, and deep oscillation therapy.
While electrotherapy devices are well-known for quickly mitigating pain and inflammation resulting from a range of both acute and chronic conditions, they’re also utilized to increase muscle strength and tone, improve range of motion, and provide faster healing and repair.
The wide range of therapies these devices offer makes them a popular choice for contracture management, edema reduction, muscle spasm relaxation, neuromuscular re-education, healthy bone formation, and strength and balance enhancement.
Additionally, a multitude of chronic health conditions and diseases respond favorably to electrotherapy approaches as well, such as spinal cord injuries, stroke, foot drop, venous thrombosis, paralysis, nerve damage, fibromyalgia, tendinitis, bursitis, neuralgia, arthritis, tenosynovitis, COPD, dysphagia, myositis, and scoliosis.
Richmar provides a diverse range of electrotherapy equipment for discerning healthcare professionals, with some that can also be used safely by patients at home to keep up with the benefits of therapy.
Also known as DOT, deep oscillation therapy uses an intermittent electro-static field to trigger a deeply penetrating and lasting resonance within the body’s tissues.
Built-up between the hands of a therapist with the applicator attachment of a Hivamat machine, this field penetrates much more deeply than manual methods, enabling previously untreatable injuries to respond favorably with minimum physical pressure.
Richmar’s HIVAMAT 200 Evident Deep Oscillation Therapy Device integrates patented technology to generate deep therapeutic oscillations for effective pain relief, swelling reduction, fluid drainage, and muscle relaxation.
FDA-approved and easier to operate than most Hivamat devices, clinicians can make easy adjustments with the user-friendly and intuitive controls, and preload specifications and customized save-slots for a quick-start option.
As a convenient and portable option for DOT, Richmar also offers the HIVAMAT 200 Portable Handheld Device for Deep Oscillation Therapy. Delivering all of the same therapeutic benefits as its larger counterpart, this handheld device enables instant therapy access wherever you need it, at home, at the office, or while traveling.
As a commonly-prescribed therapeutic treatment for joint and muscle conditions, diathermy utilizes high-frequency electrical current to generate heat within the body’s tissues.
Using shortwave, microwave, or ultrasound waves that heat the inner body areas as deep as two inches from the surface of the skin, diathermy targets its healing on inflamed muscles, bones, ligaments, and tendons, increasing range of motion while it mitigates pain and inflammation.
Richmar’s new and improved TheraTouch DX2 Shortwave Diathermy Unit is the preferred choice of clinicians with its plethora of features to make operation easy, but also exacting to provide the best care for every patient’s unique needs.
It continuously adjusts to changes with its High-Efficiency-Auto-Tuning for maximum energy transmission, while its innovative Microcirculation technology enhances tissue healing based on diathermy studies.
The Anatomical Treatment guide helps clinicians know where to place the monodes for the most effective treatment, while the Scientific Dosage Control adds more dosimetry settings, resulting in more therapeutic options.
Using shortwave diathermy, the TheraTouch DX2 facilitates healing and pain relief for conditions like arthritis, kidney stones, tendonitis, bursitis, neuralgia, back pain, fibromyalgia, myositis, muscle spasms, pelvic inflammatory disease, and sprains and strains.
As a low-intensity laser therapy used to stimulate healing, cold laser therapy utilizes low levels of light that won’t heat the body’s tissues.
Also known as low-level laser therapy, soft laser biostimulation, and photobiomodulation, cold laser therapy provides differentiated wavelengths and outputs of low-level light to a targeted area, which the body tissues then absorb, creating a physiological reaction that promotes regeneration.
Providing consistent cold laser therapy, Richmar’s TheraTouch LX2 Cold Laser Therapy Device enables clinicians to effectively rehabilitate and relieve pain from their patients.
The easy-to-use touchscreen interface features preprogrammed protocols, room for custom protocols, and a 4-minute treatment time limit to ensure patient and therapist safety. It’s guaranteed to deliver the therapy required with up to 35 Joules per cm of output per treatment.
The TheraTouch LX2 is often used by doctors, physical therapists, dentists, athletic trainers, and other medical professionals to repair damaged tissues, and to relieve pain, spams, and inflammation.
It’s indicated for use with minor injuries and sprains, such as ligament sprains, muscle strains, tendonitis, neck pain, lower back pain, knee pain, and tennis elbow.
Not to be confused with diagnostic ultrasound used in medical procedures to see inside the body, therapeutic ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to promote circulation to the affected area.
Using the inherent contraction and expansion of gas bubbles present in the affected tissue, non-thermal (mechanical) ultrasound penetrates soft tissues of the body to maximize healing and relief.
As the most modern iteration of Richmar’s 45 years of industry-leading ultrasound research, their TheraSound EVO Therapeutic Ultrasound Device provides an effective and versatile mode of therapeutic ultrasound treatment.
Its dual frequencies and revolutionary BNR with pulsed or continuous ultrasound duty cycles deliver clinical-grade therapy for a variety of settings. The TheraSound also includes a therapy hammer with both 2cm2 and 5cm2 transducers in its singular design for versatile applications.
Along with alleviating pain and inflammation, the TheraSound is suitable to treat a wide range of health conditions including ligament sprains and injuries, muscle strains and tears, tendinitis, bursitis, myofascial pain, joint contractures, scar adhesions, arthritis, joint inflammation, soft tissue injuries, slow-healing injuries, and much more.
Also known as E-Stim, electrical stimulation, or neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), electrostimulation devices elicit muscle contractions using electrical impulses delivered through electrodes attached to the patient’s skin.
Facilitating pain and inflammation relief, this modality is also often used to stimulate muscles that aren’t working well, or are weakened by illness or injury.
Specifically designed to provide a convenient and affordable solution for professional electrostimulation, Richmar’s Winner EVO Stim Electrotherapy Unit delivers effective and long-lasting therapy to treat a vast assortment of conditions.
Its tru-stim electrotherapy offers five stimulation waveforms, and it’s easy to adjust and program with user-defined profiles that have commonly used treatment settings.
For clinicians requiring combination therapy protocols for their patients, Richmar’s Winner EVO Combo Therapeutic Ultrasound + Electrostimulation delivers exceptional ultrasound stim combo therapy. Simultaneous two- or four-channel stimulation merges with therapeutic ultrasound for more versatile therapy that’s perfectly tailored for each patient’s specific requirements.
Their TheraTouch CX4 Electrotherapy Ultrasound Combo Machine is another favorite with clinicians, and considered by many to be the best therapy tool they use in their practices.
This advanced four-channel combination therapy system offers both pulsed and continuous ultrasound modes, with seven waveforms of electrotherapy. Ninety-nine custom protocol spaces ensure consistent therapy. The TheraTouch CX4 is described as one of the most intuitive and easy-to-operate systems available today.
Richmar creates some of the most highly effective and easy-to-use electrotherapy equipment for healthcare professionals to facilitate quicker healing and pain relief for their patients with soft tissue and neuromuscular issues.
With some devices that can also be used by the patients themselves between therapy visits, these electrotherapy products have innovated the medical field, becoming the tools of choice for discerning clinicians around the world.
With their diverse range of electrotherapy devices, Richmar provides unparalleled solutions for electrostimulation, diathermy, therapeutic ultrasound, cold laser therapy, and deep oscillation therapy.
They also offer combination units that amalgamate both ultrasound and electrostimulation into one device for more extensive therapy options.
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