What is shockwave therapy?
🔹 Shockwave therapy is a non-invasive treatment for patients with pain unresponsive to conventional methods, providing immediate pain relief and improved range of motion.
How does shockwave therapy work?
🔹 Shockwave therapy devices deliver acoustic energy shockwaves in nanoseconds or microseconds to stimulate healing in injured soft tissue, ligaments, and tendons.
Shockwave treatment has shown physiologic benefits by:
🔹 Increase cell permeability to create a localized inflammatory response, boost blood flow more effectively than deep tissue massage or percussive devices like the TheraGun.
🔹 Inhibite nociception to modulate pain through the peripheral nervous system.
🔹 Enhancethe healing process by stimulate hormones and cells involved in tissue repair.
What sports injuries can be treated by shockwave therapy?
✅ Feet: Heel pain (plantar fasciitis), Morton’s neuroma, nerve impingement or ligament injury,degenerated tendons (Achilles tendinopathy),, and tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis).
✅ Ankle: Chronic ankle pain, whether from osteoarthritis or ligamentous instability; a ligamentous defect in the ankle; gastrocnemius muscle strain or injury.
✅ Leg: Achilles tendonitis; gastrocnemius muscle strain or injury; retrocalcaneal bursitis (heel pain).
✅ Knee: IT band; insertional pain; strain to the medial or lateral collateral (ligaments that form either side of the knee); jumper’s knee; patella tendinopathy.
✅ Upper leg: Quad injury or hamstring strain or injury.
✅ Hand: Strains and injuries
✅ Elbow: Little leaguer’s elbow; tennis elbow; tricep or bicep elbow injuries.
✅ Hip: Gluteal muscle strain; bursitis; iliopsoas bursitis; hip flexor tendinosis, rectus femoris and lateral hip pain with gluteal tendinopathies.
✅ Shoulder: Calcinosis of the rotator cuff; partial tear of the rotator cuff; bicep injuries
Why does the body sometimes not respond to conventional treatments for healing injuries?
🔹 During wound healing, the body responds in two ways: either it repairs the wound in a healthy way, or it goes down a degenerative path, where the healing process stops and inflammation begins.
🔹 People in this state experience pain, including degenerative chronic pain. In essence, shock wave therapy awakens the body and sets it on the right path to begin a process of healing and repair.
Does the shockwave therapy has effective results?
🔹 The promising results of the treatment are based on completion of the treatment.
🔹 A lot of our patients, in my experience, even after the first treatment, can feel significantly better and resume some normal activity within 24 to 48 hours of the treatment.
🔹 The nice thing about shockwave therapy is you’re going to get promising results very fast. Though we have six weeks set aside, I anticipate that many of these patients are going to be at their treatment goal within three to four weeks.
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