The invention concerns a flexible application device including a tubular high-frequency catheter with a flexible shaft tube having at least one lumen passing therethrough, a head electrode arranged at the distal end of the catheter, an electric line with a connection for a generator ,and a connecting element arranged at the proximal end of the shaft tube between the shaft tube and the line. An electrically conducting traction element extends in the lumen between the head electrode and the connecting element and is fixedly connected to the head electrode on the one hand and the connecting element on the other hand in such a way and which is of such a tensile strength that all external forces which occur during a treatment and which act on the catheter can be transmitted to the connecting element by way of the head electrode and the traction element.
