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Ultrasound therapy (ultrasound therapy)
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
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Ultrasound therapy (US therapy) is a method of local exposure to ultra-high frequency acoustic vibrations, carried out using a corresponding emitter, contacted through an ointment base on a specific area of the patient's skin or through an aqueous medium.
Ultrasound therapy (US therapy) uses the frequency of acoustic oscillations generated in continuous mode, 22-44, 880 and 2640 kHz. In pulse mode, pulses of 0.5; 1; 2; 4 and 10 ms duration are used with a filling frequency of 1 and 3 MHz, and the repetition frequency of these pulses is 16, 48, 50 and 100 Hz.
The features of ultrasound therapy are associated with the combined effect of mechanical, thermal and physicochemical factors of ultrasound on the body. The mechanical factor is caused by variable acoustic pressure due to alternating zones of compression and rarefaction of the substance and manifests itself in vibration "micro massage" at the subcellular and cellular levels. The thermal factor is associated with the effect of transforming the absorbed energy of ultrasonic vibrations into heat. The physicochemical factor of impact is electrodynamic and subsequent conformational changes in biological structures based on the manifestation of the piezoelectric effect.
Main clinical effects: anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic, metabolic, defibrosing.
Equipment:
- with an oscillation frequency of 22-44 kHz - "Barvinok-G", "Gineton", "Tonsillor";
- with an oscillation frequency of 880 kHz - "UZ-T5", "UZT-101 F", "UZT-102", "UZT-103 U", "UZT-104" "UZT-107", "UZT-108 F", "LOR-1A", "LOR-3";
- with an oscillation frequency of 2640 kHz - "UZT-ZM", "UZT-ZЬ, "UZT-302 D", "UZT-303 L", "UZT-304 S", "UZT-305 U", "UZT-306", "UZT-307".
Medicinal phonophoresis (ultraphonophoresis) is a combined physical and chemical method of local exposure to ultra-high frequency acoustic vibrations and medicinal products, carried out using a corresponding emitter, contacted to a specific area of the patient's skin through an ointment base containing medicinal products.
The characteristics of the combined effect and the main clinical effects are determined by the influence of ultrasound and the corresponding drug.
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