Laurie Sweet answers the question: 'How Is Ultrasound Used During Therapy?' — -- Question: How Is Ultrasound Used For Pain Treatment During Physical Therapy? Answer: Ultrasound is another ...

Soundwaves from low-intensity focused ultrasound reduce pain perception and associated cardiovascular effects. The corresponding study was published in Pain. Focused ultrasound delivers a narrow band ...

After 25 years of essential tremor, Joyce Clifton regained steady hands thanks to focused ultrasound at University of Utah Health. The incisionless treatment restored her ability to write, bake, and ...

A new ultrasound treatment for kidney stones might provide pain-free relief while the patient is awake, researchers say. Kidney stones are often excruciatingly painful. In most cases, patients are ...

Engineers have developed a device that noninvasively stimulates deep brain regions, potentially disrupting the faulty signals that lead to chronic pain. Preliminary trials show the therapy relieves ...

The National Institutes of Health is currently hosting a program searching for new medical devices that could help treat and diagnose a range of health conditions, both physical and psychological. The ...

Chronic pain and treatment resistant depression — both impact millions of people, both can be debilitating and both can leave people feeling hopeless, impacting daily activities, relationships, and ...

Pain is a necessary biological signal, but a variety of conditions can cause those signals to go awry. For people with chronic pain, the root is often faulty signals emerging deep within the brain, ...