Veterinary ultrasound therapy

Veterinary ultrasound therapy is used in veterinary rehabilitation and physiotherapy both for its deep thermal effects and for its athermic and anti-inflammatory effects.

Ultrasounds are high-frequency sound waves emitted by a medical device and applied to the tissue to be treated using a probe.

This therapeutic technique provides thermal and athermic mechanical stimulation to aid in the healing of damaged tissues of the muscles, tendons, joint capsules, ligaments and bones.

Benefits

  • Easy to use
  • It accelerates the metabolic function
  • Increases the elasticity of the connective tissue
  • Accelerate the repair process
  • It reduces pain

Therapeutic Effects

  • Increase of cellular metabolism and related enzymatic activity
  • Increased local blood flow
  • Reduction of pain sensation
  • Increase of the viscoelastic properties of the fabrics

THEThermal effect: causes an increase in local blood flow in order to provide more nourishment and oxygen to the damaged tissue and drain inflammatory substances. This effect can be used to treat acute or chronic soft tissue and periarticular injuries.

- non-thermal biological effects include accelerating healing, regeneration and soft tissue repair, as well as accelerating cell metabolism and bone repair. These effects occur with any treatment with ultrasound therapy.
The frequency, expressed in megaHertz, determines the depth of penetration. A frequency of 1 MHz heats at depths between 2 and 5 cm. By increasing the frequency, the penetration capacity decreases: 3 MHz heat to a depth between 0,5 and 2 cm.