Laurie Sweet answers the question: 'How Is Ultrasound Used During Therapy?' — -- Question: How Is Ultrasound Used For Pain Treatment During Physical Therapy? Answer: Ultrasound is another ...

Physical therapy is a medical treatment that helps you improve your function, range of motion, and overall quality of life. Physical therapy can help accelerate healing from an injury, reduce pain, ...

Not all P.T.s are created equal. Find a professional who values evidence over anecdote. By Dana G. Smith There’s been a quiet revolution taking place in the field of physical therapy. In the early ...

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a treatment option for patients with essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease who have not benefited from medication or are not willing ...

Ultrasound, the decades-old technology known for giving early glimpses of unborn babies, could hold a key to a problem that has long challenged drug developers: getting medicines to hard-to-reach ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer. If Zhen Xu hadn't annoyed her lab mates, she ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in Alzheimer’s therapy. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...

Columbia University researchers are the first to show that focused ultrasound—a noninvasive technique that uses sound waves ...

Substance use disorder afflicts many Americans — in 2021, 46.3 million people in the United States age 12 or older were addicted to alcohol or drugs such as opioids and stimulants. Now scientists are ...

A multicenter clinical study in Austria has shown that a new, highly precise ultrasound approach can successfully target and ...