This document discusses calculating the thermal effects of therapeutic ultrasound. It provides the following key points: 1) Therapeutic ultrasound can produce mild, moderate, or vigorous temperature increases in tissues, each with different therapeutic effects. 2) The necessary treatment time to achieve a desired thermal effect can be calculated by dividing the desired temperature increase by the heating rate per minute of the ultrasound device and intensity being used. 3) As an alternative to using provided charts, the heating rate per minute can be estimated by multiplying a fixed rate per watt/cm2 by the intensity level. This allows estimating treatment times and thermal effects without the charts.