What is therapeutic ultrasound?
Therapeutic ultrasound is a sound wave you cannot hear, delivered through a small handheld head and a layer of gel, used to warm tissue sitting too deep for a hot pack to reach. The wave passes into the tissue and the energy it deposits raises the local temperature in structures like tendon, joint capsule and scar. Warm collagen is more extensible than cold collagen, and that is the whole point: for a short window after treatment, a stiff capsule or a thickened tendon tolerates being moved further than it did before. That window is what we are buying. Ultrasound can also be delivered in a pulsed setting where heat is not the aim, which suits more irritable tissue. Here is the honest part, and it matters more than the physics. Ultrasound is an adjunct. On its own it does not build strength, it does not change a movement pattern, and it does not address the reason a tissue became stiff and irritable in the first place. It prepares tissue for the work that follows.
So it always sits inside a bigger plan. Your session runs 45 to 60 minutes with Dr. Egbuzie, and the minutes under the ultrasound head are a small fraction of that. No referral is required in Texas. Fittees is cash-based with a detailed superbill for reimbursement, so nothing is added to your bill without you knowing what it is for and why it is there. Most patients feel relief after their first session, and a typical plan runs two to three visits a week for four to six weeks.
