Ultrasound is a therapeutic treatment method utilizing soundwaves to treat pain, inflammation, and muscle spasms. It's a method of stimulating tissue beneath the skin's surface using soundwaves. The ultrasonic waves that pass through the skin cause a vibration of the local tissues. The vibration can cause a deep heating locally, though usally no sensation of heat will be felt by the patient.

The soundwaves stimulate your joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and other tissues providing targeted pain relief.

Ultrasound waves do the following:

• Add heat: The soundwaves penetrate the skin and surface layers and cause the soft tissue to vibrate, producing gentle healing vibrations within the affected area that soothe inflammation and relieve pain.
• Increase blood flow: Ultrasound waves also cause tissues to relax and increase blood flow to help reduce local swelling and chronic inflammation. Increased blood flow also delivers more oxygen and nutrients to the tissue, removes cell waste, and aids healing.
• Enhances absorption of analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents: Ultrasound can also be used to evoke phonophoresis. This is a non-invasive way of enhancing the absorption of analgesics and anti-inflammatory agents to tissues below the skin using ultrasonic waves.
• Decreases trigger point pain: Ultrasound works by decreasing the pain and sensitivity associated with muscular trigger points. Studies have demonstrated trigger points to be important causes of headache, back ache, and all types of muscular and soft tissue "overuse" syndromes.

Ultrasound therapy has been shown to cause increases in tissue relaxation, local blood flow, and scar tissue and adhesion breakdown. The effect of the increase in local blood flow can be used to help reduce local swelling and chronic inflammation, and, according to some studies, promote bone fracture healing. Ultrasound enhances the body's natural healing process and can reduce irritation to nerve roots.

Ultrasound Therapy can be used for:

• Arthritis pain relief
• Sciatic nerve pain relief
• Foot pain
• Wound care
• Poor circulation
• Neck pain, shoulder pain, back pain, chronic pain, etc.
• Knee injuries
• Rotator cuff injuries
• Tendonitis
• Bursitis
• Pulled muscles
• Frozen shoulder
  ...among many others.