Deep Oscillation in Head and Neck - Immediate Impact

"In June 2011, Physiopod supplied a Hivamat Deep Oscillation machine to a Hospice in a neighbouring county. I was asked whether I would be agreeable in setting up and showing the Hospice staff how to use this machine. I had been using my Hivamat since the end of November 2009....

I explained all aspects of the machine and how to prepare for treatment, whereupon a lovely elderly gentleman with severe head and neck lymphoedema was presented for me to demonstrate deep oscillation.

He had severe facial oedema with a marked left-sided drop of his face, his left eye was hooded, his mouth drooped significantly downwards in comparison to his right side, and he had an enlarged, flaccid submental, submandibular pouch obscuring a normal neck.

It became evident to us all at the transformation of this gentleman’s face as I worked accordingly with the machine using both gloved hands and the applicator head. His hooded eye was lifting, improving his ability to see, his left mouth raised so his articulation from when he had arrived was more pronounced, and the sloppy lymph-filled pouch receded.

Clearly, in a short space of time, deep oscillation had penetrated engorgement and improved areas that would have been impossible with the normal surface, feather touch technique.

This was my first experience of treating a head and neck patient and my first experience of treating with deep oscillation. Since then I always treat head and neck cases with deep oscillation as the evidence was self-evident in 2011."