Ultrasound- What does it do?

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I always thought an ultra sound was like pictures of soft tissue, but today at work I got to ultrasound one of the horses who has a very bad tendon injury.

I basically had to put the gel on his leg (It smells) and then there was a hourglass shaped metal device and one end was a circle which produced a small amount of heat. I had to rub this device over his tendon for 10 minutes.

I know this sounds silly but I had no idea what the ultrasound was doing? The horse has it twice a day for 3 weeks then he will get re assesed by the vet. So what is this doing to his tendon as I always thought the ulyrasound was a way to take pictures, like the kind you get when your pregnant.
 
'ultra sound waves' come at different frequencies.

From what I can gather, it stimulates the blood flow to the effected area. This will improve the recovery time. But it has to be repeated a few times a day.

The reason the gel smelt is probably because they put essential oils in it, menthol, peppermint, whitch hazel and the likes.

Good luck for the horse.

Lou x
 
Ahh ok that makes sense now, he has it done twice a day but this may be increased on tuesday dependign what comes up in the scan.

He's a lovely horse only 4 was just starting to be backed. It was my first time working with him and he's just a big gentle giant! The vet seems to think he will make a full recovery but will be off for about 9 months yet.
 
I have ultrasound on my back every week at the chiropractors. I think it works by getting to the deeper muscles and therefore stimulates blood flow to the affected area, but not entirely sure!
 
Rebelzmum said:
I have ultrasound on my back every week at the chiropractors. I think it works by getting to the deeper muscles and therefore stimulates blood flow to the affected area, but not entirely sure!
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I never knew ultrasound was so widely used, a bit naive really. The machine we was using looked ancient but was apparently worth £5000 so I was very careful not to break it :)
 
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