Ultrasound therapy, which is employed most often in physical therapy, sends mechanical sound waves outside the range of human hearing into the body, there to vibrate, heat, and relax soft tissue and ease pain.
That most iconic of car-wreck injuries, whiplash, is caused by a quick and violent back-and-forth motion of the head and neck that can injure bones in the spine, discs between the bones, ligaments, muscles, nerves, and other tissues.
Through a process called cavitation–the rapid expansion and contraction of tiny gas bubbles around tissues–ultrasound therapy has been found to speed cellular processes and healing.
Ultrasound Therapy is helpful in treating the following conditions: