This therapy is used for treating illnesses of the joints with the help of focused shock waves and using ultrasound at the same time. This method was once developed to remove kidney and gall stones and has been used successfully for 20 years. For 8 years it has also been used in orthopaedics and is now well known and generally approved of. With this safe method of healing, operations can often be avoided. It has also no side effects.
Typical indications:
- stiff shoulders
- calcified shoulder
- tennis elbow
- golfer's elbow
- calcaneal spur
- achillodynia
- patella tip syndrome
- periarticular soft-tissue calcification
- chronic tendon-attachment disease
- benign ulcers (e.g. gangliae)
Advantages:
- often operations can be avoided
- no radiation damages
- gentle therapy
- no side effects
- high rate of success
Various effects of this therapy:
- substance P is freed more easily
This leads to a dilation of the blood vessels and to a better circulation.
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inhibits the enzyme COX II
This reduces inflammation.
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activation of cellular defence
The body again starts to actively defend itself.
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hyperstimulation of nerve fibres
Beginning painstimuli are blocked by over-stimulating the nerve fibres thus leading to a strengthening of the analgetic reaction (gate-control-theory).
