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US/50 General Operation and Application Procedures
Ultrasound—Indications
Ultrasound delivered to the body using an efficient coupling provides deep heating
effects to body tissues. When therapeutic ultrasound is delivered to the body at
intensities capable of generating a deep tissue temperature increase, some or all
of the following effects may occur:
Pain relief
Reduction of muscle spasm
Increase in collagen elasticity or extensibility
Increase in blood flow
Increase in soft tissue elasticity
Increase in enzyme activity
Mild inflammatory response which can help resolve chronic inflammatory
processes
Some of the general conditions for which ultrasound has been used as an
adjunctive therapy are:
Increase range of motion of contracted joints using heat and stretch
techniques
Treatment of chronic bursitis, epicondylitis and tenosynovitis
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy as in shoulder-hand syndrome or Sudeck's
atrophy
Treatment of plantar warts
Chronic arthritis
• Back pain from lumbago, coccygodynia, radiculitis, sciatica, spondylitis
deformans and others
Reduction of postoperative pain, phantom pains and pain from intercostal
neuralgia
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