| If you are searching for all details you can | | | | greater the density is, the better you can |
| get about the Ultrasound method, you are | | | | use it for more goals, such as scar tissue |
| definitely on the right track! It is a | | | | breakdown. |
| well-known fact that Ultrasound has been used | | | | |
| by physical therapists for a long time, since | | | | For sensitive patients who aren't so |
| about 1940s, but what is amazing is how it | | | | comfortable with injections, the Ultrasound |
| managed to improve year by year due to | | | | technique can also be used to achieve |
| scientific progress. You are probably | | | | phonophoresis. That means that the |
| wondering what actually the Ultrasound | | | | medications are administrated to tissues |
| modality consists of. Well, Ultrasound is | | | | below the skin. Thus, the ultrasonic energy |
| applied using a round-headed wand or probe | | | | forces the medication through the skin, and |
| that is put in direct contact with the skin | | | | one of the most commonly used substances |
| of the patient. The frequency of the | | | | delivered in this way is Cortisone, also used |
| therapeutic Ultrasound is between 0.8-1.0 | | | | for reducing inflammation. |
| MHz. To assist in the transmission of the | | | | |
| ultrasonic waves, therapists use the | | | | The Ultrasound treatment is so easy and fast! |
| Ultrasound gel, which can be used on all | | | | It will take you only 5 minutes maximum for a |
| surfaces of the head to reduce friction. | | | | typical one, but if scar tissue breakdown is |
| | | | the goal, the Ultrasound treatment can take |
| You will find all about the Ultrasound and | | | | much longer. On one hand, if the head of the |
| how it works in the following lines. The | | | | Ultrasound probe is kept in constant motion |
| vibration of the crystals within the head of | | | | during the treatment, the patient should feel |
| the wand or probe generates a piezoelectric | | | | very comfortable, but, on the other hand, if |
| effect, which makes those ultrasonic waves to | | | | kept in one place for more than a few |
| transmit. They are passed through the skin, | | | | seconds, a build up of the sound energy can |
| thus producing a vibration of the local | | | | result, and it could cause slight discomfort |
| tissues. You do have to acknowledge the fact | | | | to him/she. The Ultrasound method is also |
| that this vibration causes a profound | | | | very useful in cases of minor fractures that |
| heating, although the patient will not feel | | | | aren't obvious on x-rays. Thus, even a very |
| any sensation at all of this local heat, so | | | | minor break in a bone in the area that is |
| there's nothing to worry about. In cases like | | | | close to the surface could cause the patient |
| fresh injuries with acute inflammation there | | | | to feel a sharp pain, so there is only to win |
| will not be a heating effect, so, instead of | | | | with the Ultrasound technique. |
| being permanently transmitted, the Ultrasound | | | | |
| will be pulsed. | | | | Here are just a few conditions which can be |
| | | | treated with Ultrasound: tendonitis, |
| But, as all therapeutic modalities, the | | | | non-acute joint swelling, muscle spasm, and |
| Ultrasound can produce many other effects | | | | even Peyronie's Disease (to break down the |
| than just the potential heating effect, such | | | | scar tissue). But, do not forget the |
| as local blood flow, scar tissue breakdown | | | | contraindications of Ultrasound, which |
| and increases in tissue relaxation. It has | | | | include local malignancy, metal implants |
| been shown that the effect of the increase in | | | | below the treated area, local acute |
| local blood flow can help reduce local | | | | infection, vascular abnormalities, and |
| swelling and chronic inflammation, and | | | | directly on the abdomen of pregnant women, or |
| promote bone fracture healing. Another | | | | over the skull, eyes or the spinal cord in |
| interesting fact is that power density of the | | | | the area of a laminectomy. |
| Ultrasound measures in watt/cm2, and, the | | | | |