At Dr. David W. Nadler & Associates, we put your body’s own healing processes to work to resolve chronic pain. Shockwave therapy is an effective and long-lasting approach that doesn’t rely on masking the pain. While medications temporarily block pain signals, they eventually become less effective. Focused shockwave therapy and radial shockwave therapy tackle the pain of everyday living at its source for long-term healing, addressing conditions such as:
- Acute athletic injuries
- Bone and Stress Fractures
- Chronic Tendon Pain
- Knee and Joint Arthritis
- Deep Wounds and Injuries
From plantar fasciitis to tennis elbow, osteoarthritis to myofascial pain syndromes, many sources of chronic pain have one thing in common: time. Plaque developing in joints and impeding their movement, worsening tendon damage, and compounding myofascial tension all develop over time. Shockwave therapy puts your body’s own resources to work, reversing damage accumulated over time.
Types of Shockwave Therapy
By sending waves of energy into your body, we disrupt joint plaque, release myofascial restriction, and help your body to heal tendon damage. We offer treatments using radial shockwave Newtown Square area patients need for acute injuries such as plantar fasciitis, and focused shockwave therapy that directly addresses deeper problems such as joint calcification, deep tissue damage and avascular necrosis.
Comparing Focused and Radial Shockwave Therapy
Using a directly applied, non-impact combination of sound, ultrasound and other waveforms, our equipment releases energy into your body. We use the focused shockwave therapy Newtown Square, PA, patients need to provide maximum healing for specific injuries without regional discomfort, and we release years of accumulated tissue and joint damage with gentler, broader radial shockwave therapy.
Specific Radial Shockwave Therapy Benefits
- Broader effect with less energy density for regional healing of musculoskeletal pain
- Less need for targeting with imaging or patient feedback
Both Focused and Radial Shockwave Therapy Provide:
- Increased healing microcirculation of blood and lymph
- Enhanced cell wall permeability to receive biological healing
- Release of “substance P,” the body’s natural pain management factor
- Vasodilation resulting in reduced regional blood pressure and improved flow
Focused Shockwave Therapy Adds
- Increased cell metabolism and anti-inflammatory effect from the release of nitric oxide
- Stimulating of healing growth factors
- Targeted higher-energy treatment for a more deeper and invasive injuries and conditions
How Does Shockwave Energy Heal?
The broad effect of radial energy and the deep penetrating healing of focused energy waves do produce mild, temporary side effects like bruising, swelling, and numbness. These are the results of your body moving in to remove released joint plaque and heal microtraumas created by shockwave energy. This process uses the increased blood flow and natural healing activity of the body to restore localized damage that has been causing you pain. Three to five sessions of as little as 15 minutes can begin to make a world of difference for painful conditions that have, in many cases, been reducing your quality of life for years.