Living with chronic pain despite trying numerous methods for relief? Dr. Alicia Calease and the team at Calease Chiropractic in Waverly, IA offer ultrasound treatment to help.
Guide to Ultrasound Treatment
When you’re suffering from chronic pain, the usual methods of relief might not always cut it. This is because the source of the pain is sometimes deep down in the tissues, and not all treatments can reach that far. When the root is that deep, it can not only create ongoing pain but also restrict your movement and worsen over time. Addressing it is essential to your general health and wellness, but how can you address it if you can’t reach it?
Thanks to methods like ultrasound treatment, those deeper areas can now be treated. In this guide, Dr. Calease and the team at Calease Chiropractic in Waverly, IA explain ultrasound therapy and how it can help you.
Basics of Ultrasound Therapy
Ultrasound therapy is a method that utilizes a small handheld device. Your chiropractor will guide this device over your skin to the target area where sound waves will be sent through your skin into the deepest layers of tissue.
As the sound waves penetrate your soft tissues, they break up tension and scar tissue, which helps relieve your pain, stimulate healing in the tissues, and increase blood flow to that area.
What Can Ultrasound Therapy Treat?
Ultrasound therapy is very effective, thanks to its ability to reach so deeply into the soft tissues. Even when we don’t realize it, it’s easy to develop painful knots and tension in these layers.
It’s usually due to years of bad habits, such as slouching over a device, but it can also be due to previous injuries. When those injuries are not properly or fully healed, they develop scar tissue. Unfortunately, that scar tissue and any knots can cause years of pain and limited movement – all without you realizing there is an issue since the root is so deep.
Ultrasound therapy can reach those layers, though. It is used for a wide range of symptoms and conditions, including but not limited to the following.
- Muscle spasms
- Chronic back pain
- Chronic neck pain
- Tendinitis
- Bursitis
- Nerve pain
- Knee pain
- Hip pain
It’s typically used in conjunction with other treatment techniques, such as adjustments and therapeutic exercises so that you can achieve full and lasting healing.
Learn more about ultrasound treatment and how it can benefit your life by visiting Dr. Calease at Calease Chiropractic in Waverly, IA. Call (319) 352-5353 to schedule your appointment today.