Ultrasound therapy is a treatment modality used to treat pain conditions, and to promote tissue healing. Ultra sound is particularly effective for soft tissue injuries. It is used to treat back, neck and joint pain as well as muscle sprains/strains, bursitis, and tendonitis.
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
Also know as E-Stim or Muscle Stim, Electrical stimulation is a treatment modality which uses an electrical current to cause a single muscle or a group of muscles to contract. This contraction helps reduce pain, strengthen injured muscles and promotes healing. Muscle stim targets muscle to prevent retardation of muscular disuse atrophy, relaxation of muscle spasm, muscle reeducation, increases range of motion, and increases local blood circulation.
Cryo/Heat Therapy
Heat therapy is divided into two principal categories based on the heat's ability to penetrate your skin and affect your underlying tissues: superficial and deep. Examples of superficial heat therapies include hot packs and hydrotherapy. Examples of deep heat therapies include ultrasound. Applying heat to your tissues increases your circulation or blood flow and causes your connective tissue to become more flexible. It also promotes a transient reduction in your joint stiffness, pain and muscle spasms. Using heat therapies can help you reduce inflammation and congestion in your tissues. Heat therapy is used to treat many health complaints, including arthritis, muscle spasms, muscle sprains and strains
Cold therapy or "cryotherapy" is used to treat acute injuries of your musculoskeletal system. It is intended to reduce inflammation, circulation, muscle spasms and pain. Cold therapy cools your skin's surface and underlying tissues, which results in the narrowing of your blood vessels---a process called vasoconstriction. Vasoconstriction of your blood vessels causes a reduction in the blood volume to the site of your injury, resulting in reduced swelling.
Inversion Therapy Table with Infrared Heat
Inversion tables are known to help gently decompress the spine, specifically the vertebral disc. This can be beneficial to all, but even more to those who have disc bulges and herniation's. Inversion tables also stretch and release tension from muscles around the spine. Inversion therapy can offer other benefits beyond pain-relief, including reduced stress, improved blood circulation and increased flexibility/mobility.
