Re: Re: Beyond Chiropractors

["Jack Massey" <jmassey@neteze.com>]

also I used tens on 2 yr old at the track to fill in the canon bone  and it
works but is also why I left the track I could not stand the 2 yr old . Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tivers@aol.com>
To: <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Beyond Chiropractors


> In a message dated 9/12/00 6:51:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kathy_mayeda@atce.com writes:
>
> << Anyway, forgive me if you have already talked about it
>  someplace, but do you ever use ultrasound therapeutically?
>  Is this the same thing as TENS?  Is there a reference
>  source I can read to learn more about it?>
>
> I've used ultrasound in several ways--most often to generate "deep heat"
in
> sore muscles. You can also melt away bone spurs and splints with it, but
you
> have to be very careful trying that. Finally, you can use it to drive
topical
> treatments into the skin--sonophoresis. Never done that, but have read the
> literature on it.
>
> TENS is Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. Used most often to
> deaden the sensitivity of pain-conducting nerves. TENS also has an
> anti-inflammatory effect, locally. Don't ask me why. We use TENS most
often
> to treat bowed tendons by contracting the deep and superficial flexor
muscles
> in the forelegs--the TENS will generate actual contractions of these
smaller
> muscles and is cheaper by half than and EMS machine.
>
>  >What do you do when you have a large muscle spasm in
>  the gluteals?  I've learned a few "voo-doo, Rev. Jones
>  bone rattling" therapies, but now that I hopefully
>  got your attention, maybe you could feed my mind a little
>  more constructively.>
>
> Ultrasound will work to calm the muscle down, as will deep massage--a
Sears
> reciprocal sander with sheepskin on the head is the best mode for that.
Once
> calmed, the muscle can be treated with TENS or EMS to prevent and relieve
> inflammation. All the while, of course, you're seeking the cause.
>
>
>  Kathy >>
>
> ti
>
>
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