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Michaela Tomanova

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Brandýs nad Orlicí Rehabilitation Clinic, Brandýs nad Orlicí, Czech Republic

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#### **Therapeutic Ultrasounds: Physical Basis and Clinical Assessment Therapeutic Ultrasounds: Physical Basis and Clinical Assessment**

Elisa Edi Anna Nadia Lioce, Matteo Novello and Elisa Edi Anna Nadia Lioce, Matteo Novello and Caterina Guiot

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upright standing position are necessary to correct the optimal body posture, including neutral positions. Therapy and exercises gradually and automatically lead to improvement in posture. The method also improves body segment positions because it impacts the whole posture and spine stabilization with the help of gravity effects. The emphasis is on proprioception, exteroception, sense of position, and sense of movement, as well as the patient's awareness of

The considerable advantage of the INFINITY method® is a wide range of autotherapy techniques, well-understood principles, and a wide range of variations. Using these treatments and exercises, the musculoskeletal system is loaded, but not overloaded, and it activates and often relaxes these structures as well. The patient experiences whole-body stabilization after treatment and practices the method with the assistance of a therapist. The treatment also results in biomechanical rebalancing and body symmetrization in a space allowed by structures of the musculoskeletal and central neural system. This should also result in improvement in quality and effectiveness of the motion, and also in improvement in connective and soft-tissue quality and functionality (muscles, ligaments, tendons) as well as a reduction of

his or her own body and its motion.

pain in the musculoskeletal system.

Address all correspondence to: sekretariat@rehabilitacniustav.cz

Brandýs nad Orlicí Rehabilitation Clinic, Brandýs nad Orlicí, Czech Republic

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Michaela Tomanova

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/67566

#### **Abstract**

Improving quality in US physiotherapeutical treatments is mandatory in order to get 'evidence‐based' clinical results. This implies quality assurance protocols for the equip‐ ment, 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.

**Keywords:** ultrasound, physiotheraphy, quality, assessment, dosimetry, phantom
