to Answer the Question
While helping give ultrasound therapy to patients in a physical therapy office, I asked myself, "Does Ultrasound Therapy actually work? Or, am I just waving a magic wand around this person's injury?" This website's purpose is to state relevant evidence, studies, and clinical trials while opening a dialogue about ultrasound therapy.
Although I respect my friends (chiropractors, athletic trainers, and physical therapists) who believe that ultrasound therapy works, I cannot accept their viewpoint on face value. I cannot find studies that back ultrasound therapy to a comfortable degree, nor can I find even one study that backs ultrasound therapy to an uneasy degree. Reebok, for example was recently incriminated for not having any clinical studies to back claims that their "butt shaping" shoes shaped a person's gluteus muscles. They had no choice but to offer cash back on past sales. As with Reebok's "butt shaping" shoes, we should ask the physical therapy community, "Where's the studies that back your claims?"
I asked a physical therapist about what ultrasound therapy does. He responded by reaching out and touching my shoulder. He said that sometimes just having someone focus on the infected area, by touching it, can lead to rehabilitation. In other words, he didn't seem to mind that a treatment he charges for only has a placebo effect. Recovered patients who believe that ultrasound therapy worked for them usually take part in many other therapies which are more likely to have been the cause of their rehabilitation - the studies for these treatments are not under scrutiny. Also, there is no substitute for a good patient who takes time to address injuries out of the office.
In many of my friends' defense, they say that ultrasound would be more effective if patients used it on a daily basis, which they can't because their appointments are usually few and far between.
As a good graduate student, I researched the studies behind ultrasound therapy, and this website contains the sum of my research - click "Studies and Clinical Trials." Surprisingly, I could not find many articles supporting ultrasound therapy.
Therefore, I concur with Dr. VJ Robertson (PT, PhD, Associate Prof. School of Physiotherapy La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia) and Dr. KG Baker (PT, PhD, Senior Lecturer Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand):
Although I respect my friends (chiropractors, athletic trainers, and physical therapists) who believe that ultrasound therapy works, I cannot accept their viewpoint on face value. I cannot find studies that back ultrasound therapy to a comfortable degree, nor can I find even one study that backs ultrasound therapy to an uneasy degree. Reebok, for example was recently incriminated for not having any clinical studies to back claims that their "butt shaping" shoes shaped a person's gluteus muscles. They had no choice but to offer cash back on past sales. As with Reebok's "butt shaping" shoes, we should ask the physical therapy community, "Where's the studies that back your claims?"
I asked a physical therapist about what ultrasound therapy does. He responded by reaching out and touching my shoulder. He said that sometimes just having someone focus on the infected area, by touching it, can lead to rehabilitation. In other words, he didn't seem to mind that a treatment he charges for only has a placebo effect. Recovered patients who believe that ultrasound therapy worked for them usually take part in many other therapies which are more likely to have been the cause of their rehabilitation - the studies for these treatments are not under scrutiny. Also, there is no substitute for a good patient who takes time to address injuries out of the office.
In many of my friends' defense, they say that ultrasound would be more effective if patients used it on a daily basis, which they can't because their appointments are usually few and far between.
As a good graduate student, I researched the studies behind ultrasound therapy, and this website contains the sum of my research - click "Studies and Clinical Trials." Surprisingly, I could not find many articles supporting ultrasound therapy.
Therefore, I concur with Dr. VJ Robertson (PT, PhD, Associate Prof. School of Physiotherapy La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia) and Dr. KG Baker (PT, PhD, Senior Lecturer Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health, Science, and Technology, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand):
"Therapeutic ultrasound is one of the most widely and frequently used electrophysical agents. Despite over 60 years of clinical use, the effectiveness of ultrasound for treating people with pain, musculoskeletal injuries, and soft tissue lesions remains questionable."
"Almost 2 decades ago, it was pointed out that physical therapists tended to overlook the tenuous nature of the scientific basis for the use of therapeutic ultrasound."
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