SPORTS
MEDICINE REHABILITATION SECTIONIMPACTIVE
ULTRASOUND AND
PHYSIOTHERAPY (SHOCK WAVE)
Chalkia Anna, Georgiadou
Evdokia, Skeyakis Stelios
Alexander Technological Education
Institute Thessaloniki, Greece
The
impactive ultrasound (Shock-Wave) is reported in the new system for
extra - bodily treatment with impactive waves. This system has
completely prepared in order to function in big number of diseases that
is cured in the frame of physiotherapy.
The methodology (of
system) is based on the use of sound waves that lasts fractions of
second and they are in position to multiply in to cellular frame of
webs (which beings in the treatment) and create impactive waves
(pressures). Thus result analgetic action, reduction of local
inflammation, reformation of trichoid vessels and re-activation of
correctional processes.
Uses: The impactive ultrasound is a
apparatus which was drawn exclusively for the physical treatment but at
the same time the re-establishment of many diseases that concerns the
musculoskeletal system.
It has application in:
epikondylitida,
epitrochilitida, recalcification, spine, haematoma, osteophyte,
pseudarticulation, tendonitis, periosteitis. The application of extra -
bodily treatment with impactive waves is very effective in important
pathological situations (mainly arthritis) thanks to his technical and
functional facility and in the fact that its application is exterior.
Exist
many types diseases that can be faced with this treatment as
alternative solution or in collaboration with the other traditional
methods, without callousness or any one of elsewhere type of sedation.
It is used in cases where they concern the hyperthermia, callousness,
dissolution recalcificates.
Advantages:
•each treatment
has small duration; •they only need few applications;
•in
individual only cases exists need for total callousness; •are
minimal the cases where is not allowed the application; •it
has
minimal side effects; •after researches and applications of
this
technique it was proved that in enough cases it has been avoided any
chirurgical intervention.
