Hello everyone,

This question was forwarded by Steve Marshburn. We wanted to see if anyone here had any experience with ultrasound therapy.

Thanks for your input.

Kathy

Hi,

I have a question and your probably the person to ask. I was hit by
lightening approxiamatly 7 years ago. I was in auto accident the end of May
of this year. I have injuries to my neck and back. The Dr. perscribed
ultrasound therapy along with lots of other stuff. I have been undergoing
this ultrasound therapy since June. I am very concerned that this may be
having an adverse affect on me. They "plug me in and crank up the juice"
until they get to the pain threshhold, and keep it on for what seems an
eternity, but is only actually 15 minutes. The only thing that I can think
about lying there is when I was hit by the lightening. My back is not
recovering and the doctor's don't seem to think that I'm gonna make a
complete recovery. Has anyone else in the organization gone thru this type
of therapy? Did it help them? Have you heard anything about this type of
therapy on a lightening survivor? Or could it just be me and the juice bring
back that terrible day. Please if you can find out anything,please let me
know. It's almost traumatizing to undergo this and if it really isn't doing
what it's supposed to do, I need to know. My doctors have said that they
don't really know but this is what they do for "normal" people, and it works
most of the time. The injury I recieved when I was T-boned in my mini van
was I sprained every bone, muscle, tendon, and ligament in my neck and back.
Which is still causing muscle spasms and shooting pains throughout my body
from the base of my head down. Please if you can find out for me I'd really
apperciate it. All the doctors here seem to know nothing and are totally
unwilling to spend the time to research in to it. If I knew how to research
it I would.

My injury was electrical right hand to left hand 10/99.

Yes I have had ultra sound therapy on my shoulders for rotator cuff tendonitis. I found it to very painful. The therapist stopped doing it and said that if it hurt, it should be stopped. I had two different therapist from two different states and they both got the same results. Both attempts were 8 months apart.

Hope this info helps. Kelly

i also have had ultra sound therapy , it does hurt ..it is painful....i complained and told them that it makes the pain worse and for them to stop, i went thru this for days and finally i told them no i cannot take that anymore it makes the pain worse.. i asked them if they have ever treated anyone with electrical shock and lightning injuries, the answer was no, i asked them if they have any concept of what it does to the human body.. besides the burns they want to see... they wrote in my report, unco-operative and it is all in my head, when i seen that report i called up and chewed him out..i asked where does he and his staff get off writing this, he told me they were taught if something is not working then either the patient is unco-operative or it is in there head and do not want to get well, i told him this is absurd...the ultra sound therapy makes the pain unbearable and it is like being shocked all over again.. and one should not have to relive that and esp in therapy where the treatment is suppose to help not be a henerance! you know it is a shame in this day and age that one has to be treated like this and that they do not look into and found out what these injuries due to the human body, is this not part of there job, yet if we have the info and forward it to them or try to educate them, they get very defensive, stating we our trying to do there job, no but do not be tunnel visioned! it is a shame that one has to be put thru this stigma that it is all in our head and that society still labels one that if we cannot get well that it is all on our heads, the therapy does hurt , makes the pain worse and we should not continue to be over and over again have that stigma, nothing wrong with us boy are they further from the truth. you know it is a shame that society has let all this stigma pass on and on, it is hard to re-educate medical people when they have been taught something and do not want to learn more but we have alot in common with the pain and injuries but yep it does hurt...it is very truamatizing and that pain of threshold when they turn up the juice does hurt makes things worse and it is just like reliving that day over and over again... why should we, i found it did absolutely nothing for me but hell i forgot ,it is all in my head! barb

I recieved ultrasound therapy, and it did not bother me too bad, but did make me nervous. What I could not tolerate was the electrical stim therapy. The therapists were really good about it, and we tried reduced current, and finally did away with it altogether. I also got a big surprise when I went to the swimming pool. watching the small waves made me sick, and I had difficulty keeping my balance in the pool. I had spent half of my life on or under the water, and had never experienced that sensation befor.

I have nothing but good to say about my experience with ultrasound therapy. I had a car accident in September of last year and still have not fully recovered. I had been having painful muscle spasms in my neck and upper back (not unlike the "cricks" you get from sleeping "funny")and in only one ultrasound therepy session the spasms were almost eliminated. There was still some stiffness and the pain would come back within a few days.

Ultrasound therapy was also used on the medial surface of my knee, which impacted with the steering column during the accident. The therapist explained that there was a risk of a hidden fracture under the kneecap. In which case I would experience a "sudden bone searing pain" (his words) at which point he would stop. Imagine my concern. But, being brave and in pain, I told him to go ahead. There were no unseen fractures and the first treatment increases the blood flow so much that by the next session two days later, the bruise(about 4 inches in diameter) was almost completely faded.