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Research Article
Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound for Chronic Lateral Epicondylitis Pain Reduction
Author(s): Michael H Slayton, John A Kearney, Richard C Amodei and Keegan B ComptonMichael H Slayton, John A Kearney, Richard C Amodei and Keegan B Compton
Introduction: Intense therapeutic ultrasound (ITU) is a newly established ultrasound-based, non-invasive therapy in which sound waves are concentrated and focused on musculoskeletal tissue for the purpose of pain reduction. This technology produces selective thermal coagulative changes over a small controlled area while leaving the surrounding tissue unaffected and without impacting the integrity of the dermis.Methods: A clinical study evaluating 29 patients (Age: 39 – 60, Male: 59%, Female 41%) for the effectiveness, safety and patient tolerance of Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound (ITU) for treatment of chronic (average length of symptoms prior to treatment: 12.9 months), subcutaneous lateral Epicondylitis musculoskeletal tissue pain reduction was conducted. All patients enrolled in this IRB approved study had been previously diagnosed with.. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2161-0673.1000202
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