1. What is shock wave therapy
Shock wave therapy is known as one of the three modern medical miracles, and it is a new way to treat pain. The application of shock wave mechanical energy can produce cavitation effect, stress effect, osteogenic effect, and analgesic effect in deep tissues such as muscles, joints, and bones, so as to loosen tissue adhesions, improve local blood circulation, crush bone spurs, and promote vascular growth factors. The production, the effect of accelerating recovery.
2. What is the principle of shock wave therapy?
1）. Mechanical wave effect: When the shock wave passes through different media, it will produce a mechanical stress effect at the interface, loosen tissue adhesions at pain points, and stretch contractures, especially at the muscle, tendon attachment point, and fascia at the lesion site. .
2.） Cavitation effect: the induced tension damage achieves the purpose of degrading calcium deposition foci and treating calcific tendonitis.
3）. Analgesic effect: It can reduce the excitatory threshold of neurons, trigger the nervous system response mode by activating unmyelinated C fibers and A-δ fibers – “gate control” response, eliminate or reduce pain.
4）. Metabolic activation effect: It can activate the ion exchange inside and outside the cells, change the permeability of cells, accelerate the cleaning and absorption of metabolic breakdown products, and help reduce and subside chronic inflammation.
5）. Osteogenic effect: activate osteoblasts and promote new bone formation
3. What does a shock wave do?
1) Improve local blood circulation and loosen soft tissue adhesions
2) Crack hardened bone, promote tissue blood vessel growth and bone healing
3) Relieve pain, improve local metabolism, loosen calcium deposits in the affected area, and facilitate body absorption
4) Reduce inflammation, reduce edema, and speed up recovery
4. What types of pain are treated with Shockwave Therapy?
A:Common Tendonitis, Achilles Tendonitis
1）Tendons are tough bands of tissue that connect muscles to bones. The Achilles tendon is one of the longest and strongest tendons in the human body. It connects the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles of the calf to the calcaneus or heel bone. It is used for walking, running essential element. Although it is very strong, it is not very flexible. Excessive exercise can cause serious consequences such as inflammation, tearing or breaking.
2）Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is a non-invasive operation that uses high-energy shock wave pulses to control inflammation. Vibration, high-speed movement, etc. cause the medium to be extremely compressed and gather to generate sound waves with mechanical properties that can cause pressure, temperature, density, etc. of the medium. The physical properties change dramatically, promote metabolism, strengthen blood and lymphatic circulation, improve tissue nutrition, and have a good curative effect on tendinitis and Achilles tendonitis. Minimizes stress on the Achilles tendon and helps promote healing of damaged tendon tissue.
Common Knee Injuries shock wave machine
There are many muscles and ligaments wrapped around the knee joint, and damage to a small part of the muscles, ligament tear, avulsion fracture, etc. manifests in local swelling pain and aggravated pain after walking activities. The knee is one of the joints most commonly affected by arthritic lesions, and knee osteoarthritis requires treatment of everything around the knee—muscles, bursae, ligaments, tendons, structures that are the primary cause of pain. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy uses the principle of energy conversion and transmission into the human body to activate stem cells and the regeneration of growth factors. The treatment relaxes and relaxes the muscles, providing more flexibility and elasticity to the musculoskeletal tissue, which relieves stress on the joints.
B: common plantar fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is a type of chronic sports injury. Plantar fasciitis is often associated with abnormal foot biomechanics (flat feet, high arched feet, hallux valgus, etc.). The most painful time for plantar fasciitis is when you wake up every morning: the moment your foot touches the ground and you are about to stand up, the pain is very severe.
As a new non-invasive treatment method, extracorporeal shock wave has a unique cumulative effect. The effect of shock wave therapy largely depends on the accurate positioning of pain points, that is, with the extension of treatment time, the patient’s symptoms will be further improved, and the organization will be improved. self-healing ability.
5. How shock wave therapy?
A New Way to Treat Pain: Neck Pain
With the growth of age, excessive chronic strain of the cervical spine will cause a series of degenerative pathological changes such as intervertebral disc degeneration and weakening of elasticity, formation of bony spurs at the edge of the vertebral body, facet joint disorder, ligament thickening, and calcification. Cervical spine injuries caused by sports injuries often induce the occurrence of cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis after trauma is more common in young people. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is a minimally invasive and painless treatment, which has the advantages of small tissue damage and short treatment period, and can quickly and effectively relieve pain
A New Way to Treat Pain: Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a group of symptoms or syndromes characterized by low back pain, which can be acute or chronic. Low back pain can occur in many local and systemic diseases, and low back pain caused by degenerative spondylosis and acute and chronic injuries is more common. Due to the complex causes of low back pain, extracorporeal shock wave therapy can be used for low back pain. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy is a minimally invasive and painless treatment, which has the advantages of less tissue damage and a short treatment period, and can quickly and effectively relieve pain.
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A New Way to Treat Pain: Shoulder and Back Pain
Shoulder pain is pain in the shoulder joint and its surrounding muscles and bones, which is caused by shoulder tendinopathy. Frozen shoulder, also known as periarthritis of the shoulder, is a chronic specific inflammation of the shoulder joint capsule and its surrounding ligaments, tendons and synovial bursa. Scapulohumeral periarthritis is the common disease that is cardinal symptom with shoulder arthralgia and inconvenient activity. In the process of treatment and rehabilitation, in addition to the importance of active exercise, shock wave therapy can also be used to actively intervene in pain, long-term follow-up and maintenance to relieve the pain caused by frozen shoulder.
Tennis elbow, pain on the outside of the elbow is a disease of long hair in the working population. “Tennis elbow” is very easy to cause due to repeated stretching and flexing of the wrist joint, especially when the wrist is stretched hard, and at the same time the forearm is required to pronate and supinate. this damage. Tennis Elbow can occur in almost any workplace. Shock wave therapy for tennis elbow has a remarkable effect and has many advantages. Through professional rehabilitation guidance, the formulation of a rehabilitation program plan, combined with extracorporeal shock wave therapy has become a new non-surgical green minimally invasive treatment method.
Shockwaves can be very effective in treating tendonitis. The high-intensity shock wave produces super-strong stimulation to the nerve ending tissue, reduces nerve sensitivity, causes changes in free radicals around cells and releases pain-inhibiting substances, thereby relieving pain.
6. What are the common problems in shock wave therapy:
Queation 1:
Treatment cycle: 1 treatment every 5-6 days, 3-5 times in a course of treatment. It is recommended to adjust the work and rest time during the treatment cycle so that the treatment can be carried out on time.
Queation 2:
What are the advantages of shock wave therapy: No need to take medicine, no injections, safe and convenient, and can be treated in outpatient clinics;
●Does not harm normal tissues, only works on the affected area, especially necrotic cells;
●The treatment time is short, the cycle is 3-5 times, depending on the condition of the patient;
●Relieve pain quickly, and the pain can be relieved after treatment;
●A wide range of indications, especially for pain and soft tissue disorders.
Queation 3:
Shock wave therapy clinical contraindications: patients with bleeding disorders or coagulation disorders;
●Thrombosis in the treatment area: Shock wave therapy is prohibited for such patients, so as not to cause thrombus and embolus to fall off and cause serious consequences;
●Women who are pregnant and have pregnancy intention;
Acute soft tissue injury, malignant tumor, epiphyseal cartilage, local infection focus;
●Pacemakers installed and metal implants in the treatment site;
Patients with hematopoietic system diseases and mental illness;
Patients with acute rotator cuff injury;
●Those deemed unsuitable by other doctors
Post time: Jun-25-2023
