Soundwave therapy

[abunaitoo]

Has anyone done it?????
My Mom has back pain.
I'm wondering if it would help.
Not much about it dealing with back pain.
Lots of info with it helping ED dysfunction.

[MaryB]

Ultrasound... have done it for my bad shoulders and it relaxes muscles relieving pain for awhile. We never realize we tense up around an injury and those muscles stay tensed when we sleep... the ultrasound massage relaxes them. I usually got 3-4 weeks of less pain.

[Brass&Lead]

If it is a compressed disc – inversion tables help some people.

[abunaitoo]

This is the one where you sit in a room and this thing makes a noise.
To me, it seems to easy to do anything, but you never know.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

funny coincidence:
this morning, I'm reading the Police reports in the local newspaper...
"Sunday Nov 22, 09:29pm, a person reported that a roommate was sending shockwaves through a light fixture"

I wonder if the roommate told the police, it was a "Soundwave therapy" device, LOL.

[dbosman]

Has your mother been seen by a physician who is a pain management specialist?
There are so many types of back pain from too many causes for a blanket endorsement of a treatment.

There is a treatment using Botox to paralyze the nerve endings in a specific area.

[popper]

Vibrator or those electric stimulation work. Sound wave doesn't work. Kinda like the LEDs to grow hair or relieve foot pain the chiro guys use. Worthless.
Depending on the type of back pain, touching your toes works well. Most is compressed disks messing with nerves or the nerve bundle at the spine base getting constricted by the bone. Symptom is usually shin splints. Bend to touch toes stretches the spine to relieve pain. Anything that gently stretches the spine helps.
mom had a technique, you lay back flat on the floor, someone at your head used both hands UNDER your back (not on spine) to gently pull from waist to neck. Weight of your body is the force. Do not pull on neck.

[Mr_Sheesh]

One thing I saw done for bad cramps was, you to lie face down in a comfortable situation, massage table in this case, they put a head sized stone on the cramp and let time and pressure work gradually on the cramp. Works well, but if it's not back cramps causing the problem, no help.