electrotherapy
- n the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
- After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again.
- During three years as a political prisoner, Strachan recounted, he frequently saw black prisoners whipped, kicked and tortured with shocks from an electrotherapy machine.
- Imagine a budding Chicago gunman, suspected but not convicted of enough to justify electrotherapy, being disgraced by sentence to hospital.