🔹 Shockwave therapy, also known as Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT), is an non-invasive treatment that utilities high-energy acoustic waves to stimulate your body's natural healing process.
🔹 Originally developed to treat kidney stones and gallstones, it has been found to be effective in treating musculoskeletal!injuries and chronic pain conditions.
🔹 Focus shock wave therapy can provide deeper penetration for deeper tissue than radial waves, focusing its output into more localised, more profound areas.
🔹 EMFOCUS, the electromagnetic focus shockwave is based on the physical principle of electromagnetic induction. It enables very precise and highly sensitive dosing of the applied shock wave energy. The shock wave source used a special coil to focus the shock waves.
🔹 Shock waves are generated in water outside the body and then transmitted to the biological tissue.
🔹 This provides an accurately defined focal zone that can move through the skin without losing power.
🔹 And the site of the applicator on the skin experiences a minimal impact, limiting the damage to surface skin and underlying soft tissues (safer & more comfortable).
🔹 EMFOCUS treats at defined points within the body and is further adapted depending on the required depth. This accuracy feature makes focus shock wave therapy much better for treating issues deeper within the body.
🔹 EMFOCUS shockwaves have substantially higher pressure amplitudes, characterized by a single,mostly positive pressure pulse followed by a comparatively small tensile wave component(negative pressure pulse).
🔹 Emfocus shockwave will produce a pressure peak in the range of 10-100Mega-Pascals (MPa), Compared to the positive peak pressure of 0.1-1 MPa for a radial pressurewave-100 times the amount of energy.
🔹 Furthermore, the time taken for a focused shock-wave to reach that peak, as well as its overall pulse duration, is far shorter than that of a Radial shockwave. It's faster, stronger and comforter.
🔹 Focused shockwaves are generated by electromagnetic, and it utilities water to generate the shockwaves. It was noted that shock waves penetrate much better through water than they do through air.
🔹 That is the area in which the shockwave produces biological effects.The shock wave treatment area inside the body is not identical with the size of the -6dB focal zone.lt can be larger or smaller.
🔹 This definition is based on the assumption that a certain minimum pressure threshold exists below which shockwaves have no or only minimal therapeutic effectiveness.The focal zone is the area of maximum energy intensity.The size of focal zone is basically independent of the selected energy level.
🔹 By contrast, the size of the treatment zone depends on the selected energy level. Emfocus maximum 100%energy output (energy level at 0.45j/mm2)
🔹 Plantar fasciitis 🔹 Achilles tendonitis
🔹 Tennis elbow 🔹 Golfer's elbow
🔹 Rotator cuff tendonitis 🔹 Calcifc tendonitis
🔹 Patellar tendonitis 🔹 Hip bursitis
🔹 Shin splints 🔹 Stress fractures
🔹 Non-healing wounds 🔹 Heel spurs
🔹 Proximal iliotibial band friction syndrome 🔹 Tibial stress syndrome
🔹 Morton's neuroma 🔹 Calcifcations
🔹 Bone non-unions 🔹 Trigger points
🔹 Tendinopathy
