Therapuetic Exercise
- Relaxation and stress reduction
- Reduction of sore and painful muscles
- Resistance to new injuries and disease
- Performance in athletic events
- Improve circulation/joint function
- Massage can relieve many types of muscle tightness and pain by stimulating the nervous system to instruct the muscles to relax even more. Massage can reduce inflammation by increasing circulation and relieve pressure on nerves to the hands, arms, legs and feet.
Ultrasonic Therapy
Ultrasound is a therapy that is utilized in the office to handle injuries related to joints, muscle spasms, as well as most soft tissues. While it shares the same name, this ultrasound is not the same as the type of ultrasound utilized diagnostically to screen internally in the body. This ultrasound creates small sound waves that in effect vibrate and massage soft tissues and muscle. These sound waves do an excellent job in facilitating the body’s healing process in addition to decreasing scar tissue formation.
Certain ultrasounds also create a heating effect to help relax the muscles or tightness in the body. This heat combined with the overall features of the ultrasound help to start the healing process at the most basic cellular level speeding up your road to recovery.
