title: Facts and misfits in ultrasound therapy: steps to improve your treatment outcomes.
abstract: Ultrasound has been used as a therapeutic agent for decades. Unfortunately many treatments are ineffective because the wrong treatment parameters are used. In this paper I present much of my work over the past 20 years with the goal of improving ultrasound use. Seven steps to optimal ultrasound use are presented. These include: treatment size area; movement speed of the transducer; and the "stretching window".
authors.affiliation: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA - david-draper@byu.edu.
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Draper
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000639:trends*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy / Q000592:standards*