Today's blog post will focus on knee pain. Chiropractors can adjust any joint in the body including shoulder, elbow, wrist, hips, knees, ankles, hands, and feet. My patients with knee pain experience positive results with Therapeutic Ultrasound.
Therapeutic Ultrasound has shown to increase healing, tissue relaxation, and local blood flow. Increasing blood flow, along with icing the affected area, helps to reduce inflammation.
Therapeutic Ultrasound is different than a Diagnostic Ultrasound that one might get if they are pregnant. When a Chiropractor uses Therapeutic Ultrasound, there is no picture or diagnostic benefit. Therapeutic Ultrasound relaxes the muscle, ligaments, and tendons in the area being treated. For knee pain, Therapeutic Ultrasound is beneficial for the reduction of knee pain, to increase blood flow, and relaxing the muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Using KT Tape benefits knee pain by stabilizing the area.
Sometimes a chiropractor may refer an X-Ray or MRI to further assess your knee pain condition.