Therapeutic Ultrasounds: Physical Basis and Clinical Assessment

Abstract

Improving quality in US physiotherapeutical treatments is mandatory in order to get 'evidence-based' clinical results. This implies quality assurance protocols for the equipment, as well as some tentative dosimetrical approaches to predict local heating in joints following US parameter setting and operative modality. Finally, the possibility of 'personalized therapy' with multimodal (by qualitative and quantitative, e.g. based on sonography) assessment is discussed.