What Is Shockwave Therapy?
Hi, I’m Dr. Jay with Team Health Care Clinic. Today, we wanted to talk about shockwave. And no, shockwave is not like a painful, shocking experience. It’s an acoustic sound wave.
Researchers, over many, many, many years and many studies, have found that the acoustic sound wave can stimulate our tissue so that our tissue sends a signal to our body that says, “Come back and heal this area.”
Using Shockwave for Chronic Problems
Acoustic sound wave, or shockwave, is used for chronic, longer-standing problems, including chronic lower back pain, which is what we’re going to demonstrate here today.
Again, to summarize, there’s going to be a sound wave that stimulates her tissue so that the tissue is changed or creates a little, tiny trauma to the tissue. Her body will then come back and heal an area that it has just kind of walked away from and not healed thus far.
Demonstrating Shockwave Therapy
Here, I’ll demonstrate it. You’re going to hear some tapping, and that’s the actual sound of the shockwaves.
There’s a gel already on her back, and we’ll go back and forth. Each tap is a shock, and we’ll do anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 little shockwaves to stimulate her back so that her body will heal itself.
