What is the history of ultrasound therapy in veterinary medicine?
In the late 1930s scientists first discovered that sound waves can be absorbed into the skin. In the 1940s some believed that ultrasound was therapeutically beneficial for humans in spite of the lack of scientific evidence at the time. Since the introduction of ultrasound into the human medical field many other applications have been discovered through decades of scientific case studies. Many of the earliest laboratory studies were successfully performed on animals so it was natural that veterinarians would start to use ultrasound technology in their practice. In the 1980s veterinarians began to use ultrasound for diagnostic purposes in animals, primarily for sonograms and other internal imaging. Not long after the interest in expanding ultrasounds use for therapeutic purposes in humans, animals followed suit. On which types of animals is ultrasound therapy practiced? Diagnostic ultrasound can be used to examine almost any type of animal, ranging from small rodents and birds to even la
