Is Shockwave Therapy Right For Me?
Shockwave Therapy is a non-surgical treatment of soft tissue, bone, and joint pain. Shockwave treatments send high-energy mechanical pulses to an injured area. These high-energy mechanical pulses stimulate the breakdown of scar tissue, improves blood circulation, and decreases inflammation; which helps speed up healing and recovery times.
Shockwave therapy can help in the treatment of:
Heel spurs / Plantar fasciitis / achilles tendonitis / Tennis elbow / chronic muscular pain / Bursitis / Patellar tendonitis / Jumpers knee / Stress fractures /Lumbar & cervical spine injuries
During a Shockwave treatment, a high-intensity sound wave interacts with the tissues of the body, effectively reinjuring the area on a cellular level and breaking up scarring that has penetrated tendons and ligaments. The controlled reinjuring of tissue allows the body to regenerate blood vessels and bone cells. The resulting revascularization leads to faster healing, reversal of chronic inflammation, stimulation of collagen and a return to pre-injury activity levels.
Shockwave therapy enhances the healing process, fights inflammation, and eliminates pain by:
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) sending high-energy mechanical pulses to the treatment area.
- These high-energy mechanical pulses stimulate the breakdown of scar tissue and fibroblasts in the targeted area thus improving blood circulation in the area
- These pulses also initiate metabolic activity and an inflammatory response that promotes and stimulates healing.
Shockwave Therapy is particularly good at pain management by stimulating a metabolic reaction in the affected tissue, which induces an analgesic reaction which blocks pain messages. Shockwave therapy also stimulates the production of collagen. These newly created collagen fibers become more dense and stiff and creates a firmer and stronger structure.
Shockwave therapy increases blood circulation, promotes and accelerates the recovery of injured tissue and stimulates the body’s repair mechanisms, with damaged tissue gradually regenerating and eventually healing.
To find out more about Shockwave therapy, please contact our health care practitioners at 250-382-0018.
I really cant thank doctor Gustavson enough. I have had treatment for a heel spur on the opposite foot that was suggested by my Chiropractor maybe fifteen years ago..It was a manual work down with his fingers and was excruciatingly painful..But it worked took about ten hour n half sessions…..My second day of shock wave therapy and I am amazed how far it has progressed the healing…The pain isn’t near as severe. I would recommend this to anyone experiencing reoccurring pain that feels like nothing is working. I know when my eighty year old Mum got bursitis in her hips she would have tried anything for relief… Well next time I’m not even going to hesitate to tell her to go see doctor Gustavson.He advised me to stick to the treatment and I am so very glad I listened and trusted his experience. Thanks so very much Diversified!