sam® 2.0
Chronic pain is one of the biggest obstacles veterans face after service. The sam® is a portable, FDA-cleared therapy device that reduces pain and speeds recovery—without heavy reliance on medications.
How Does it Work?
sam® stimulates the body’s natural repair process through the sustained delivery of low intensity acoustic waves. Watch this video to learn more about how sam® delivers sustained action for faster recovery.
sam® Clinical Trials
Participants can expect clinical studies focused on pain reduction, improved function, and faster recovery across conditions such as tendon injuries, muscle recovery, and joint pain. These trials evaluate real-world outcomes using monitored treatment sessions and patient-reported results to better understand therapy effectiveness.
Tendon Injury Recovery
Muscle Recovery
Clinical Trial demonstrates that patients with tendinosis of the elbow or Achilles, treated daily with sam® for four hours per day, experienced a 70% reduction in pain after six weeks of treatment. Grip strength also increased by 17% in patients with elbow tendinosis, demonstrating recovery of the injured tendon.
Patients treated with sam® on a daily basis recover faster after a tendon injury.
Athletes treated with a single, multi-hour sam® therapeutic session experienced a 20% reduction in lactate accumulation in the blood, following strenuous exercise, when compared to the control group. When the strength and function of the treated muscles were then tested, greater muscle performance was observed, as measured by Average Power and Peak Torque. These effects may result from the ability of sam® to stimulate local circulation to active muscles.
Tendon Injury Recovery
Muscle Recovery
Osteoarthritis – Pain Relief and Function
Muscle Spasm – Pain Relief and Function
Pain Relief Grows with Regular Therapy and Joint Function Improves
Osteoarthritis
Patients Report Pain Reduction Immediately Within Treatment Sessions
Trapezius Muscle Spasm
Ultrasound therapy, according to the Cochrane Review, is clinically effective and covered under most insurance plans for Osteoarthritis pain management. In multiple clinical trials, sam® daily wearable multi-hour ultrasound therapy has been proven clinically effective on reducing pain and improving function of patients suffering from moderate to severe Osteoarthritis. When applied during normal daily activity, patients experience 39% to 51% pain reduction in the treated joint.
Patients with acute pain caused by trapezius muscle spasms experienced immediate pain relief from a single, one-hour sam® treatment session. They reported a 15% improvement in the severity of pain they were experiencing, approximately twice the effect observed in the control group.
sam® & Tissue Recovery
Sustained Acoustic Medicine treatment provides tissue heating and tissue recovery, improved patient function, and reduction of pain. When patients failed to respond to physical therapy, Sustained Acoustic Medicine proved to be a useful adjunct to facilitate healing and return to work. As a non-invasive and non-narcotic treatment option with an excellent safety profile, Sustained Acoustic Medicine may be considered a good therapeutic option for practitioners.