Shockwave Therapy
This non-invasive treatment uses high powered sound waves to treat muscle and
tendon issues. It does this by breaking down scar tissues, decreasing pain sensitivity, promoting blood vessel growth, and stimulating inflammation in the area which promotes the body’s natural healing process.
What is Shockwave Therapy?
Shockwave is a non-invasive solution that accelerates the recovery of injured soft tissue, bone, heel and joint pain. There are no side-effects and it is available at a reasonable cost.
Shockwaves are audible high-energy sound waves. They occur in the atmosphere when lightning strikes or an airplane breaks through a sound barrier. In medicine, shockwave therapy has been used since 1980 to disintegrate kidney stones.
The following conditions may benefit from Shockwave Therapy
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Treatment of Tendonopathy
- Bursitis
- Tendonitis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Tennis Elbow
- Stress Fractures
- Achilles Tendinopathy
- Hamstring Muscle Injuries
- Stiff Big Toe
- Scar Tissue
- Broken bones that have failed to heal
- Heel spurs
- Enhancing bone healing
- Jumper's Knee
- Myofascial Trigger Points
- Non-healing Ulcers
- Calcific Tendinitis of Rotator Cuff
- Shoulder Pain
- Shin Splints
- Muscle and Connective Tissue Injuries
In most cases, 1 treatment per week, for 5-7 weeks is all that is required to get rid of common issues such as plantar fasciitis, tennis and golfer’s elbow, knee pain/patellar tendonitis, shoulder tendonitis, and muscle trigger points. The treatments generally take 10-15 minutes to complete, has minimal side effects, and improvements are often noticed within the first day.
Contact us for more information on Shockwave Therapy
If you are interested in learning more or booking an appointment, then contact us via phone or email to speak to one of our awesome kinesiologists, Bobby or Kait. We look forward to helping you with this terrific new treatment! This initial appointment will be conducted by one of our chiropractors, the subsequent treatments will be done by a kinesiologist.