Radial shock wave therapy is a non-intrusive treatment when combined with exercise therapy has been clinically proven to accelerate the healing time of common injuries compared therapy and reduce
What is SW therapy?
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) was first used for kidney stones, as a method to disintegrate them. At the beginning of the 1990s, it was used as a non-invasive procedure to successfully treat calcific tendinitis. From then on, further tendon disorders were effectively addressed, with subsequent research work on their biological and clinical effects (Poenaru et al,. 2022).
What are the benefits of SW?
Shockwave therapy has been found to:
- Reduce Pain (Hausdorf et al., 2008)
- Increases blood flow
- Facilitate Tissue Healing & tendon tissue regeneration
- Positively regulates inflammation
- Reduces hypertonia in spastic muscles
- Reboots the healing process in chronic conditions
Chang et al. (2011), Lohrer et al. (2010) Plantar Fasciitis; de Worp et al. (2013) Patella tendinopathy
Beneficial effects have been shown in the management of bone, muscle and tendon pathologies including but not limited to:
- Rotator cuff
- Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)
- Biceps tendinopathy
- Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
- Proximal hamstring tendinopathy
- Patellar tendinopathy
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Plantar Fasciopathy