Affiliation:
1. 1 Master- Health Management- Lucian Blaga University, Faculty of Medicine, Sibiu 2 Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences of Cluj-Napoca, Romania;
2. 3 George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics
Abstract
Introduction. The use of therapeutic ultrasounds is a method that proved its efficiency in articu-lar and periarticular pathology, in the subacute and chronic stages. The biological effects of the ultrasound use are determined by their interaction with the cellular structures whereas the re-sults depend on the used parameters. The purpose of the survey is to evaluate / identify the ef-fects of using ultrasounds in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions (lumbar discopathy), knee osteoarthritis). Material and method. The survey was conducted on an outpatient basis in a period of 7 months and it is of the longitudinal type. It included 151 patients diagnosed with low back pain and knee osteoarthritis. The evaluated parameters were: pain, functional skills, articu-lar rigidity and the quality of life. Results. The effects of the use of ultrasounds is found in the decrease of pain, the stiffness of the joints and the contracture of the muscles, as shown by the re-sults of several surveys. Our survey proves that the use of ultrasounds decreases pain and in-creases the functional skills, it influences the physical function more obviously in patients with knee osteoarthritis, which is an aspect found in others surveys. Discussion. The use of a complex ultrasound treatment (in the pulsed way to avoid thermal effects) and kinesiotherapy enabled in our research the decrease of the pain and of the rigidity in the joints, the increase of the function-al skills and the quality of life, whereas these obtained results are in accordance with those of others surveys. Conclusions. The use of the therapeutic ultrasounds can have the following ef-fects: the decrease of the pain and of the joint rigidity, the improvement of the physical capacity for daily activities and the improvement of the quality of life. The use of low intensity ultra-sounds can determine biological effects with actions for a short period or for an average one.
Keywords: therapeutic ultrasound, treatment, osteoarticular diseases, quality of life
Publisher
Romanian Association of Balneology
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