The American Medical Association recommends therapeutic ultrasound to achieve better health. Regular sessions can help you perform your daily activities without discomfort. It can also increase your range of motion. Here is the ultimate guide to a therapeutic ultrasound if you are considering it. 

What Therapeutic Ultrasound Is About

This is a form of therapy that inserts energy into your body. It does so by heating up your tissues. The penetrating heat can reach the soft tissues, heating up your ligaments, tendons, or muscles. The therapy can provide you these benefits:
 

• More elasticity

• More circulation

• Less pain

• Faster healing

Penetrating heating can make tendons and muscles more elastic if they are tight. Your therapist will use X-rays to check an immobile joint, such as your shoulder. Therapeutic exercises aim to improve your range of motion. Your shoulders can stretch even more with the help of therapeutic ultrasound. 

How Ultrasound Works

The therapist will use an ultrasound unit in which a crystal vibrates when electricity hits it. This creates piezoelectric waves, electric charges that gather in some materials. These waves come out as ultrasound waves in the treatment. The waves penetrate your damaged tissues. They increase cavitation and blood flow. Scientists believe that this brings about the treatment’s benefits. 
 

Cavitation is when ultrasound makes microscopic gas bubbles that surround your tissues contract and expand at a fast pace. Studies show that this process speeds up healing and the functioning of cells. Cavitation decreases pain, enhances flexibility, and increases circulation. 

How It Can Help 

Therapeutic ultrasound can bring many health benefits. That is why you must consider it if you suffer from chronic or acute pain. This therapy can help heal your damaged tissues. Here are the benefits that you can get from therapeutic ultrasound:
 

• It can treat injuries in your musculoskeletal system. If you have conditions like tendonitis, frozen shoulder, or any soft tissue injury, you are a good candidate for therapeutic ultrasound

• It can treat your chronic pain. Therapeutic ultrasound can target the source of your discomfort. Studies show that waves from the therapy can improve tissue circulation and elasticity. This can then lead to less pain and more mobility

What One Must Expect

Your therapist will use an ultrasound machine for your therapy. Applying some gel on an area of your body will start the treatment. The therapist will place the soundhead on that area and move it in a circular, probing motion. You will not feel pain during this treatment. But you may feel a tingling sensation or warming around the affected area. Controlling the ultrasound’s depth or intensity depends on the therapist. 
 

This treatment’s settings can change during the stages of healing. Your therapist can use this treatment on bumpy and bony parts of your body. You can also get it for your open wounds. You must remember that an open wound may develop an infection because of the bacteria on the sound head or gel. 
 

Therapeutic ultrasound may sound intimidating, but it aims to help you gain your good health back. At Goldberg Wellness & Acupuncture Center, we take the time to explain any patient’s treatment before starting it. We are more than happy to provide a tour of our facility as well. Please visit our clinic in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for an in-person consultation. Call us at 561-624-5070 to set an appointment or ask questions about our therapeutic ultrasound treatment packages.