Shock Wave Therapy
Shock Wave Therapy
Shock wave therapy is a multidisciplinary device used in orthopaedics, physiotherapy, sports medicine, urology and veterinary medicine. Shockwave therapy is a modality that is becoming more common in physiotherapy. Its main assets are fast pain relief and mobility restoration. Together with being a non-surgical therapy with no need for painkillers makes it an ideal therapy to speed up recovery and cure various indications causing acute or chronic pain.
Shockwave therapy is an effective, non-invasive treatment of injured soft tissues, specifically tendon and plantarfascia when an injury reaches a chronic non-healing state. A safe alternative to surgery or steroid and other treatment injections, shockwave therapy is clinically proven to stimulate metabolic reactions. It activates the healing process by provoking an acute phase of healing and by stimulating enzymes involved in reducing pain, resulting in a high rate of success in treating these difficult to treat, often chronic and very painful injuries.
Shockwave therapy is a non-invasive treatment that involves creating a series of low energy acoustic wave pulsations that are directly applied to an injury through a person’s skin via a gel medium.
Benefits of Shock Wave Therapy
- Shockwave therapy has excellent cost/effectiveness ratio.
- Non-invasive solution for chronic pain in your shoulder, back, heel, knee or elbow.
- No anesthesia required, no drugs.
- Limited side effects.
- Main fields of application: orthopedics, rehabilitation, and sport medicine.
- New research shows that it can have a positive affect on acute pain.
- New blood vessels are formed, improving blood supply and oxygenation of the treated area. faster healing is one result.
- Reversal of chronic inflammation occurs as mast cell activity increases. Mast cells play an important role in wound healing and defense against pathogens.
- Accelerates the generation of collagen, which helps tendon fibers become denser and stiffer, creating a firmer structure.
- Calcium build-up breaks down – granular portions of the buildup are removed by the body’s lymphatic system in areas where micro-tears and other trauma to tendons exist.
- Substance P levels are lowered and pain is reduced when a neurotransmitter relays pain messages to the central nervous system and inhibits the formation of inflammatory edema.
- Release trigger points.
Indication of Shock Wave Therapy
- Chronic Tendinopathies
- Calcifying tendinopathy of the shoulder
- Lateral epicondylopathy of the elbow (tennis elbow)
- Greater trochanter pain syndrome
- Patellar tendinopathy
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Plantar fasciitis, with or without heel spur
- Bone Pathologies
- Delayed bone healing
- Avascular bone necrosis without articular derangement
- Stress fracture
- Bone Non-Union (pseudarthroses)
- Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) without articular derangement
- Delayed or non-healing wounds
- Non-circumferential burn wounds
- Skin ulcers
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy without calcification
- Medial epicondylopathy of the elbow
- Adductor tendinopathy syndrome
- Pes-Anserinus tendinopathy syndrome
- Peroneal tendinopathy
- Tibial stress syndrome (shin splint)
- Foot and ankle tendinopathies
- Myofascial Syndrome
- Musculoskeletal pathologies
- Osteoarthritis
- Dupuytren disease
- Plantar fibromatosis (Ledderhose disease)
- De Quervain disease
- Trigger finger
- Neurological pathologies
- Spasticity
- Polyneuropathy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Urologic pathologies
- Pelvic chronic pain syndrome (abacterial prostatitis)
- Erectile dysfunction
- Peyronie disease
- Lymphedema
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