Ultrasound

Ultrasound is primarily used as a therapeutic tool in physical therapy. Its action is mechanical, and it is actually about micro massage, mechanical compaction and stretching of tissue and the movement of individual tissue particles. It is a procedure by which we can thermally affect deeper parts of the tissue within the locomotor system, and the application of ultrasound is often called ultrasound diathermy. The vibrations coming from the ultrasound head are transmitted to the tissue. They penetrate in the form of longitudinal waves and all the cells that are in their way begin to vibrate, i.e. oscillate. The mechanical effect of ultrasound in physical medicine is manifested as micromassage at the application site by transforming the gel into a salt state, which means that the gelatinous structures become liquid. The effect of ultrasound is tissue stretching. To avoid the presence of air in the folds of the skin, we use a contact agent (paraffin oil, gels, even voltaren). High doses of ultrasound can mechanically damage the tissue, so do not apply doses higher than 2 W/cm2 of the surface of the applicator head. We use ultrasound for chronic degenerative diseases, entensitis, bursitis, tendovaginitis, capsulitis, ligament injuries. Painful and stuck shoulder, radial and ulnar epicondylitis.

Seltzer ultrasound

Rehabilitation occupies a high place in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. One of the methods that has been changing for many years in the treatment of MS patients is ultrasound treatment according to Hans Seltzer, who, after many years of studying the disease, presented his theory and method of treatment in Stockholm in 1969. The Seltzer ultrasound method consists of marking two zones: the neck area (neck, shoulders and the most important zone of the pharyngeal lymph ring) and the area of the paravertebral musculature of the thoracic and lumbar spine.