Dear Bursitis Injury Sufferer,

I Have a Couple of Important Questions For You:

1. Does it boggle your mind how long it is taking your inflamed bursa to get better?

2. Are you concerned that this bursitis is not going to improve unless you stop working or dramatically reduce your daily activity?

On this very page you are currently reading I’m going to give you the straight goods on bursa inflammation and secondary joint troubles stemming from bursitis.

After that, I'm going to reveal the following:

So, Let's Get Started..

Why and How it Happens

A bursa is a small fluid filled sac typically positioned around the many joints in your body; the number varies but most people have approximately 160 bursae. The primary function of a bursa is to reduce friction between tissues of the body, commonly between tendon and bone. One example would be the pes anserine bursa, whose function is to reduce rubbing between the tibia bone and three tendons of the hamstring muscle on the inside part of the knee. Basically, bursae keep different soft tissues in the body from rubbing or fraying.

Your chances of getting bursitis increase with age. The onset of bursitis can arise from overuse of a joint, extensive stress on a joint, or through direct trauma (ie. falling and hitting your elbow on a hard surface). Bursitis is common among people who work in the trades such as carpenters, painters, and floor installers but it is often seen in musicians, students, and athletes such as tennis and golf players as well. Bursitis can also occur among people who suffer from diabetes, gout, thyroid disease, or an infection.

As you can see, there is not any specific, single reason for the development of bursitis; it can arise slowly over time, as is often seen in cases of bursitis of the hip, or it can show up all of a sudden due to a strong impact. If you suspect you may have bursitis, please see a physician for a proper diagnosis. The surprisingly high levels of pain common with bursitis inflammation is not something you should ever guess about, as it could be symptomatic of many dangerous injuries, illnesses or diseases - so make sure you get to a doctor and know exactly what you are dealing with!

A Note About Septic Bursitis

Septic Bursitis is a more serious form of bursitis, where the bursa is not only inflamed but also infected. Any time you are dealing with infection, it is absolutely critical to see your physician. Severe cases of septic bursitis may require drainage, antibiotics or various other forms of treatment. Diverse organisms such as cryptococcus, neisseria and haemophilus can bring about septic bursitis; treatment must be monitored by your physician to ensure your reactions to treatment stay positive.

Note: I strongly encourage anyone who has a bursitis injury to read more about their specific injury in our information pages. The more you understand why the injury occurred, the better chance you have to prevent re-injury.

Why is it Taking so Long to Get Better?

First of all, you need to understand the nature of a bursa. A bursa is not a muscle, tendon, ligament, cartilege or bone - it is a bursa. It is termed as a fluid filled sac, but it is actually a pretty tough sac. It is noteworthy that even a healthy bursa receives very little blood flow.

When you have an inflamed bursa, the bursa swells as damaged tissue cells release toxins. These toxins cause the area to be very tender to touch, red, and sore to move. As the toxins and damaged cells accumulate, blood vessels become blocked and fluid builds... resulting in more swelling and pain. This is very much like the effect a dam has on a river - the flow is stopped, more fluid pools and pressure within the bursa increases.

Blood is your body's natural healer. It delivers oxygen and nutrients - elements crucial to regenerate and re-grow healthy tissue. The bad news is that your inflamed bursa cannot heal fast because there is very little fresh blood flowing to the injured area - even less blood flow than when the bursa is healthy (which isn't much to start with).

By the way, if you have full blown bursitis and the pain tolerance of an average person, you won't be moving your joint - it is just too painful. The immobility that comes with the pain means there is even less blood flowing to the injured area, and that means your bursitis is going to take a very long time to heal.

Ah, So to Speed Up the Healing I Get Rid of the Swelling?

Yes, for starters. To speed it up faster, use a therapy that will decrease the swelling and also increase the blood flow. Basically, treat yourself the way pro athletes do - their trainers know the best ways to treat soft tissue injuries so take a lesson from them!

So How Do Trainers Treat Pro Athletes with Bursitis?

Trainers use a combination of cold compression and Ultrasound Therapy.

Doctors routinely prescribe ultrasonic massage treatments as a primary treatment for all forms of soft tissue inflammation. Typically these treatments are two sessions per week, since more than that becomes too inconvenient or expensive. The stakes are much higher for professional athletes however, where downtime can cost a sports team millions in lost revenue; this is why athletic team trainers treat injured athletes with ultrasound, and do so multiple times per day.

You have now learned the "straight goods" on bursitis. I was on such a roll, I already gave you some foolproof ways to recover faster from your injury. There is a key piece of information that is more valuable yet that I want to share with you. Before I do so, however, it is necessary that you learn about re-injury.

To properly answer this question, I'd have to write a short novel. The short version is this - there are many possible reasons, but the most likely are:

• You have diabetes, a form of arthritis, or some other condition that predisposes you to bursitis.
• You engage in a trade or practice that predisposes you to bursitis in a certain area. (ie. you kneel often and because of this suffer from bursitis in the knee).
• Your initial bursitis injury was not fully healed and has flared up again.

Much of the pain that is encountered with a bursitis injury goes away once the inflammation is reduced. It is at this point that many people think their bursitis is cured, but that is not the case. If you are treating bursitis, it is important to treat it fully and completely. Once the pain disappears, keep treating the area until your joint is 100% healthy. First of all, this means that the range of motion in your joint is 100% of what is was before your bursitis injury. Secondly, it means that the joint is as strong as it was before your bursitis occurred. Ensure you do not overdo it once the pain is gone.

Some bursitis sufferers mistakenly go back to work immediately after their bursa feels better not realizing their joint has weakened due to lack of use. This further increases their chances of reinjuring the bursa and even contracting tendinitis or muscle strain. Once the bursitis pain is gone and you are ready to get back to your activities, ease into it slowly to lessen your chances of a injury by treating the bursa and surrounding soft tissue with therapeutic ultrasound. If you can, try to lessen the strain on your recently recovered joint. If it is relevant, consider buying a good set of knee pads, elbow pads or better shoes with orthotics; if this can help prevent recurrence then it is probably worth it!

In most cases of a tear, strain, pull, or cartilage degeneration, scar tissue begins to form at the injury site, binding your tissues together abnormally.

Unlike healthy tissue that works like a stretchy elastic band, scar tissue is tough and inflexible. Most of us know of someone that just can't seem to recover from a soft tissue injury - a good example is a runner that has injured their achilles tendon: the injury stops hurting so they start running again, and the scar tissue from the old injury prevents the achilles from flexing properly, so they keep straining it time after time. In fact, 90% of runners that have injured their achilles will re-injure their achilles again - this is what scar tissue can do - it turns a short term injury into a long term recurring injury.

The biggest secret of ultrasound therapy is... the more you do it, the better it works. It's that simple - bursitis responds extremely well to therapeutic ultrasound and can speed up the healing process significantly.

What Does Ultrasound Do?

Ultrasound Therapy is a vital component to rapid healing of your Bursitis, as it provides multiple benefits. First, it increases blood flow to the treated area, which speeds the healing process. Second, it reduces swelling and edema, which are the main sources of pain. When used in conjunction with a Freezie Wrap^® and an Inferno Wrap^®, you are maximizing your recovery therapy.

To rid your bursa inflammation completely you need something to unblock the blood vessels and open the blood flow in the injury location. During ultrasound treatments, sound waves vibrate the soft tissue to reduce the blockage, decreasing the pooling of fluid and resupplying the injured area with much needed nutrients (allowing your injured cells to heal more quickly). Here's how it happens...

The sound waves bounce against the tissue, scattering the fluid that causes inflammation. This unblocks the dam allowing blood to flow normally again. Increased blood flow helps whisk away dead cells and toxins from the injured tissue. The sound waves speed your body through the inflammatory process - reducing symptoms of pain, swelling, redness and heat - and open up vessels to deliver fresh blood for healing.

...the key to faster healing.

Blood is your body's natural healer. It delivers oxygen and nutrients - crucial elements to regenerate and re-grow healthy tissue. Not only does ultrasound open up your blood vessels, it creates a thermal (warming) effect in the tissue cells. To counteract this warming effect, your body tries to cool the warmed tissue by sending blood to the treatment area. This increases the amount of fresh oxygen and nutrients to the injured area for even faster healing!

Ultrasound Therapy - Makes Sense Right?

Let's Review some points about Ultrasound Therapy:

What Can Be Treated With Ultrasound?

An incredibly wide variety of ailments are treated using ultrasound. Essentially, ultrasound will help anywhere you need increased blood circulation and reduced swelling/edema.

Injuries to the bursae, ligaments, tendons and muscles are excellent candidates for ultrasound treatments. Typically, these types of injuries are very slow to heal due to constant use and/or poor or slow blood circulation. Regular applications of ultrasound therapy over the duration of the healing period will quickly and significantly reduce pain as well as recovery time- the ultrasound-stimulated tissue and increased blood flow speed the healing process, while the swelling/edema is reduced.

Ultrasound Therapy - As a Warm Up

Most professional athletes use ultrasound therapy as a preventative measure to protect themselves against injury. Using ultrasound before and after very physically demanding activities aids in the warm-up/warm-down process. Athletes with chronic ailments from previous injuries also use ultrasound to promote circulation to the injured area and to reduce any swelling and pain which may impact their performance. Many professional athletes have purchased personal ultrasound units, due to their frequent use.

Trigger Point Therapy

Massage therapists will often offer ultrasound treatments in conjunction with regular massage, as a pain free method of releasing trigger points and "knots" in all the muscles. Using ultrasound on the trigger points of injured muscles helps to relax and reduce the trauma of the injury. When relaxed, the muscle can heal and recover from the injury much more quickly and more effectively, with less scar tissue formation. While full body ultrasound treatments are not practical, ultrasound treatments on specific injured areas are very effective.

What is so Important About Ultrasound Gel?

When applied directly to the skin an ultrasound head cannot effectively transfer the sound waves into the body. To make it work properly, a conductive medium is required - ultrasound gel.

The gel simply makes it possible for the sound waves to travel from the unit head into your body. Ultrasound without gel is ineffective and can damage the ultrasound machine.

If you are not getting your ultrasound gel from MendMeShop, then the answer is yes. Our all-natural gel is the only Effective Topical Therapeutic Gel that is also a Phonophoretic Ultrasound Gel. When we went out looking for an outstanding ultrasound gel to use along with our outstanding ultrasound unit, we didn't like what we found, so we made our own! It is made with natural medical ingredients- Eucalyptus, Bulgarian Lavender, Peppermint and Menthol.

These have anesthetic, counter-irritant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, decongestant, circulatory stimulant properties, and more. When applied topically and phonophoretically massaged into the skin during ultrasound treatments, MendMeShop Ultrasound Gel relieves pain and speeds healing, without any side-effects.

How to Get Further Relief with Phonophoresis Therapy

Ultrasound can also be used to administer therapeutic medicines deep into your uppper leg muscles via the use of medicated ultrasound gel. This is a process known as phonophoresis. Ultrasound with Phonophoresis is rapidly becoming more popular than Ultrasound Therapy alone.

The MendMeShop all natural gel is the only effective topical therapeutic gel that is also a phonophoretic ultrasound gel.

MendMeShop Lavender Infusion ultrasound gel is made with natural medical ingredients that have:

• anesthetic
• counter-irritant
• anti-inflammatory
• analgesic
• decongestant
• circulatory stimulant properties and more

When applied topically and massaged into the skin, MendMeShop Gel relieves pain and speeds healing without any side-effects.

MendMeShop Gel is a professional medical product for professional quality treatments that is prescribed by doctors and used in physical therapy and chiropractic clinics.

If you are not using the MendMeShop Lavender Infusion Ultrasound gel, your soft tissue treatment is missing the advantages of phonophoresis.

MendMeShop Lavender Infusion Gel is a medical product that is prescribed by doctors and used in many physical therapy and chiropractic clinics. MendMeShop Gel is a professional product for professional quality treatments. It's powerful, effective, hypoallergenic, and it works!

Traditional Ultrasound Therapy treatments can be obtained from most Doctors, Physiotherapists, and Chiropractors. Some Massage Therapists also provide Ultrasound treatments.

Phonophoretic Ultrasound Therapy is also available at many Doctor's offices, Chiropractors, and Physical Therapy Clinics. Some clinics may even rent out Ultrasound Kits to patients for use at home after an initial consultation. Typical pricing is $75 - $100 per week for take home units. In-clinic treatment pricing may vary depending on your condition.

Ultrasound Kits are also available for purchase from most medical practitioners who offer Ultrasound treatments. You can also order our ultrasound at our online shop by clicking here.

Our Home Therapeutic Ultrasound Kit is designed for people who require or desire ultrasound treatments on a regular basis. Compact, light-weight, safe, portable and very easy to use, it provides people with a means to give themselves convenient, private, and much less expensive ultrasound treatments.

The units come with a bottle of our naturally medicated ultrasound gel that, through the process of phonophoresis, delivers anti-inflammatory and pain relieving ingredients deep into the treated area. The combination of phonophoretically delivered medications and the regular ultrasound therapy provide incredible pain relief and greatly speed the healing process.

In addition to the ultrasound unit and medicated gel, our kits also come with an illustrated treatment manual to guide you through treating almost every part of your body. Furthermore, our crew of friendly Customer Service Advisors can provide personalized treatment plans or answer any questions you might have... and it's a toll free phone call!

Benefits of MendMeShop Ultrasound

Why No Other Ultrasound Unit Compares To MendMeShop:

• A 96% customer success rate
• Automatic 1 Year Warranty - Optional 5 year upgrade
• Exclusive MendMeShop phonophoretic medicated gel
• Timed safety shut off, preventing injury due to overuse
• 60 Day Money Back Guarantee
• Access to dedicated Customer Service Advisors at any time

Effective

Therapeutic Ultrasound emits ultrasound waves at a frequency of 1-million vibrations per second (1 MHz). A safe recommended treatment time is typically 3 to 10 minutes at three applications per day.

Our online shop offers a safe personal therapeutic ultrasound device for your purchase. This ultrasound technology is the same technology used at your physical therapists office.

When used properly with our ultrasound gel, your personal ultrasound unit has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective treatment device for injuries and ailments.

Soothing

Our personal ultrasound unit comes with our specially formulated ultrasound gel containing Menthol, Eucalyptus, Peppermint, and Lavender - proven natural pain relievers.

This ultrasound gel is designed to give immediate topical relief. Even better though is that the ultrasound waves drive the pain relieving ingredients deep into the affected tissues.

Medically this process is known as phonophoresis. The end result is that the combination of our ultrasound and the specially formulated gel get to the pain deep under the skin to the injured muscle tissue, tendons and ligaments. It's relief where you need it most.

Versatile

The therapeutic properties of ultrasound and phonophoresis have many applications. You can use the MendMeShop ultrasound unit to relieve:

• Tendon injuries
• Ligament injuries
• Muscle injuries
• Sciatica
• Bursitis

It is also an amazing anti-inflammatory and pain reliever for Plantar Fasciitis, Arthritis, and Nerve Damage.

Quality Engineered

The MendMeShop Ultrasound Therapy System:

• is engineered in an approved medical manufacturing facility - made to our exact specifications for optimal, frequent home treatments.



• guaranteed to not heat up and break down due to a unique energy absorption ring that reduces wear and tear on the internal parts of the unit.


• is a high quality device, made of durable materials.


• offers a medical grade level of reliability - guaranteed. Every unit comes with an automatic 1 year warranty with the option to extend it to 5 years.

Cost Effective and Convenient

Therapeutic ultrasound delivers the same kind of pain relief and healing benefits as professional ultrasound treatments at the physical therapy office.

When used in conjunction with other physical therapy regimens, users can reduce recurring physical therapy costs and decrease time traveling to inconvenient appointments.

For most injuries and ailments, a cycle of ultrasound therapy usually consists of 3 to 10 minute treatments 2-3 times per day for the duration of the healing period.

This surprises many people who have gone for single treatments in clinics only 2 or 3 times each week. This has everything to do with the cost and convenience for the customer.

A proper course of therapeutic ultrasound treatments consists of 3 to 10 minute treatments 2 to 4 times per day.

Therapeutic Ultrasound Restrictions

Please read carefully our Ultrasound Contraindications and Information page here. If you or your physician determine that Ultrasound Therapy is not a viable option, Click here to Read More About Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy.

Call to Order or Purchase Online

Our ultrasound kits are radically changing lives and the professional therapeutic community. A low cost, safe, easy-to-use unit allows professionals to provide their patients with units to take home and use for the duration of the healing process.

This means you can get your treatments 3 times per day, every day, instead of just a couple times per week. That's 10 times as often - 10 times the benefit - meaning a much less painful and more speedy recovery.

Get Your Personalised Treatment Plan Today!

You can order online or place an order over the phone. We have dedicated MendMeShop Customer Service Advisors waiting to take your call and give you a personalised treatment plan.

You can call us to place an order or ask questions at:

North America (Toll Free): 1866 237 9608

International Callers: 1 705 445 3505

Guaranteed To Be The Best

MendMeShop Portable Ultrasound Units are the best quality product you will find anywhere. MendMeshop products are also guaranteed with a 60 day money back guarantee.

If for any reason you're not happy with any product you purchase at MendMeShop, you can send it back for a full refund.

Home Ultrasound Kits are radically changing lives, as well as the professional therapeutic community. A low cost, safe, easy-to-use unit allows professionals to provide their patients with units to take home and use for the duration of the healing process. This means you can get your treatments 3 times per day, every day, instead of just a couple times per week. This therefore means a fast, efficient recovery, with reduced pain- guaranteed.

Before beginning any new treatments or therapies for any condition, always consult your doctor to make sure MendMeShop's outstanding products are right for you.

If you are suffering from a nagging bursitis injury then I'd advise you to learn about how Blood Flow Stimulation Therapy can be used to further enhance your injury treatment. Click here to Read More About BFST™.

Or email us at service@AidMyBursa.com