At Advantage Healthcare and Physiotherapy, our physiotherapists are trained in the use of real time ultrasound for assessing and retraining muscle activation patterns.
Real time ultrasound is very useful for retraining correct core muscle activation patterns and enables the practitioner to ensure that the correct muscles are activating when you switch on your core. Did you know that people with chronic low back pain often have poor activation of the abdominal muscles and the multifidus muscles?
When is Real Time Ultrasound used?
After Spinal Surgery
To ensure correct core muscle activation patterns and enables the practitioner to ensure that the correct muscles are activating when you switch on your core
Lateral Hip Pain
We also often use real time ultrasound around the hip for people suffering from lateral hip pain (often caused by gluteal tendinopathies and bursitis). This helps retrain correct muscle activation patterns to help resolve your problem more quickly.
Pilates Assessments
We use real time ultrasound as part of our pilates assessments to teach you how to correctly switch on your core for when you come to classes.
Pregnancy Related Pelvic Pain
Real-time ultrasound will assist with retraining pelvic muscles
Back Pain
Using real time ultrasound, our physiotherapists are specifically trained to teach you how to activate your core stability muscles
Posture
Train your core stabiliser muscles using Real-Time Ultrasound, Clinical Pilates and functional conditioning