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Why do I need an ultrasound for high blood pressure?

Doppler ultrasound is used to check blood flow through arteries at pulse points in your arms, legs, hands, and feet. This is an accurate way to detect peripheral vascular disease, a common finding in people with high blood pressure.

How does ultrasound work as a treatment?

Mechanical ultrasound therapy uses pulses of sound waves to penetrate tissues. While this still has a minor warming effect, it also causes expansion and contraction in tiny gas bubbles in soft tissues. This decreases the inflammatory response, which reduces swelling and decreases pain.

What is the best therapy for hypertension?

Diuretics are often recommended as the first line of therapy for most people who have high blood pressure. However, your doctor may start a medicine other than a diuretic as the first line of therapy if you have certain medical problems. For example, ACE inhibitors are often a choice for people with diabetes.

Does ultrasound affect blood pressure?

Conclusions: Ultrasound therapy was found to have a decreasing influence on blood pressure. Ultrasound intensity and time of application may have an influence on blood pressure.

Why is a urinalysis done for hypertension?

Urinalysis is used to screen for causes of secondary hypertension, and to look for damage to the kidneys as a result of untreated hypertension.

What tests are used to diagnose hypertension?

Tests

• Ambulatory monitoring. This 24-hour blood pressure monitoring test is used to confirm if you have high blood pressure.
• Lab tests. Your doctor may recommend a urine test (urinalysis) and blood tests, including a cholesterol test.
• Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG).
• Echocardiogram.

What are the side effects of ultrasound therapy?

Ultrasound heating which can lead to irreversible tissue changes follows an inverse time-temperature relationship. Depending on the temperature gradients, the effects from ultrasound exposure can include mild heating, coagulative necrosis, tissue vaporization, or all three.

What are the indications for ultrasound?

Indications for Ultrasound <12 Weeks Gestation

• hyperemesis gravidarum:
• diabetes mellitus;
• hypertension;
• toxaemia of pregnancy;
• liver or renal disease;
• autoimmune disease;
• cardiac disease;
• alloimmunisation;

What are the four major modes of treatment for hypertension?

Medications used to treat high blood pressure include:

• Diuretics. Diuretics, sometimes called water pills, are medications that help your kidneys eliminate sodium and water from the body.
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.
• Angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs).
• Calcium channel blockers.

Can you do ultrasound cavitation with high blood pressure?

Does Cavitation have any side effects? The cavitation procedure is a painless revolutionary service which does not affect the surrounding tissues and has NO SIDE EFFECTS. This treatment is very safe, HOWEVER, THESE TREATMENTS ARE NOT RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE WITH A PACEMAKER OR VERY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

What are the applications of ultrasonic therapy?

The use of ultrasonic energy for therapy continues to expand, and approved applications now include uterine fibroid ablation, cataract removal (phacoemulsification), surgical tissue cutting and hemostasis, transdermal drug delivery, and bone fracture healing, among others.

What is an ultrasound used for in physical therapy?

It is used to provide deep heating to soft tissues in the body. These tissues include muscles, tendons, joints, and ligaments. Ultrasound in physical therapy is not to be confused with diagnostic ultrasound, which is an ultrasound that is used to see the inside of the body, such as checking on a fetus during pregnancy.

Is therapeutic ultrasound more effective?

“There was little evidence that active therapeutic ultrasound is more effective than placebo ultrasound for treating people with pain or a range of musculoskeletal injuries or for promoting soft tissue healing”

When did ultrasound become used in physiotherapy?

By the 1970’s, the use of therapeutic ultrasound was established for physiotherapy, and research continued on more difficult applications in neurosurgery (Wells, 1977), and for cancer treatment (Kremkau, 1979). Subsequently, the development of therapeutic ultrasound has accelerated with a wide range of methods now in use.