Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave therapy can help those who have acute and chronic pain. It uses acoustic pressure waves to stimulate healing in muscles and tendons by promoting blood flow, triggering collagen production, and breaking down calcified deposits. Its purpose is to relieve chronic pain, improve mobility, and accelerate tissue regeneration in conditions like chronic tendinopathies (e.g., tennis elbow), plantar fasciitis, and muscle strains.
Shockwave therapy delivers energy shockwaves in a phase of either nanoseconds or microseconds to stimulate healing in injured soft tissue, ligaments and tendons.
Shockwave treatment has been shown to have physiologic benefits by:
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Increasing cell permeability to create a localized inflammatory response. The energy coming into and out of the tissue increases blood flow, much the same as, but to a greater extent than, a deep tissue massage or percussive hand pressure device known as a TheraGun.
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Causing degradation of the nerve bundle (nociception inhibition), which allows for pain modulation via the peripheral nervous system.
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Upgrading the physiologic process of healing by stimulating hormones and cells that are associated with a reparative process of healing.
