Can Ultrasound Treatment Help Back Pain?

Ultrasound treatment is an increaingly popular therapy for back pain. In this video, physical therapist Peggy Brill explains how it works.

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Absolutely. Ultrasound is a part of treatment when you come into our practice. And we use that to help the tissues to get oxygenation

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and to heal. Ultrasound is one of the modalities as physical therapists that we use. And what we do is we apply this to the patient

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to get the deep heating effect that helps with circulation. And you know, if you look at my finger, I know my finger exactly is 3 inches long.

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And when we look at this ultrasound, it's not just a superficial like a hot pack. It's going in about 2 and 1/2 inches

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below the skin's surface. And what you'll only feel is a gentle warmth, if anything, but it does help. And it's been proven to show that it affects

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the way that the nerves, the circulation to the nerves, and especially to the discs, because the disc by itself does not have its own adequate blood supply.

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So the heating effect will really help to get the tissues to heal and also to relax the muscle spasms that are guarding