How many types of shock waves are there?
There are two types of shock waves: the extracorporeal focal ones, for more profound applications, and the radial (or ballistic) waves, for more simple applications, which find particular application in the treatment of “trigger points”. Painful.
For both types of shock waves, correct diagnostic classification is essential in clinical practice before proceeding with the treatment.
At MedicFisio Center, they are performed by highly qualified personnel. Doctor Ali provides the best health and wellness center in the USA. They are effective only if the operator who applies them has adequate training and carries out the therapy with skill and experience. Last but not least, it is essential to have the right equipment.
Are there any contraindications for shock wave treatment?
Yes sure. After consulting the specialist, who will prescribe the most suitable therapy for the patient after the diagnosis, we can distinguish both absolute and relative contraindications.
As regards the absolute contraindications, these concern:
- The presence of neoplasms and thrombophlebitis where shock waves should be applied.
- The state of pregnancy.
- The presence of hollow organs (such as intestines and lungs) in the field of application.
- The presence of delicate and sensitive structures, such as the brain, spinal cord and gonads in the field of application.
As regards, instead, the relative contraindications, these concern: the presence of Pace Makers or electro-stimulators of different origin; the proximity of cartilages still in the growth phase (even if there is no absolute contraindication considering that the latest studies have shown that harmful effects are absent); the presence of diseases or alterations in blood coagulation (coagulopathies with a bleeding tendency): in such cases, the doctor will evaluate for each patient the suitability or otherwise of the treatment, and possibly also the type of instrumentation to be used.
Straightforwardly, the operator places the handpiece on the part of the body where the problem was found and releases the shock wave with a particular pedal. Many patients arrive at the Centre with the fear of perceiving pain during therapy. Our first goal is to reassure them because, with the latest generation machinery, the problem of a more annoying therapy is only a legacy of the past. Indeed, until recently, the old instrumental therapy machines were very painful even if the patient was able, in almost all cases, to finish the session only because of the short duration. Today the tools have made great strides, and the market offers us more advanced machinery with which therapy is carried out painlessly.
So what are the advantages of a shock wave treatment?
First of all, I want to emphasize it again, and it is an advantage that the session is painless. Furthermore, this is performed in a physiotherapy clinic and does not require anesthesia. Finally, the treatment lasts a few minutes, and the number of applications is limited (from 3 to 5 repeatable sessions) depending on the specialist’s indications.
Could shock wave treatment represent a valid alternative to surgery?
Both for bone consolidation disorders and some tendon pathologies, shock wave treatment can spare the patient a possible surgical intervention. In any case, this does not preclude, if necessary, the possibility of submitting it.
Can shock waves also be associate with other therapies?
Yes sure. The combination of shock waves with other instrumental therapies and rehabilitative exercise of a therapeutic type can represent the right way to resolve specific pathologies. Furthermore, the combination with the intake of any nutraceuticals (i.e. food supplements) would also seem adequate. Shock wave treatment does not interfere with other types of therapy.
What does it mean for you and yours and for MedicFisio Center to have the best instrumental therapy equipment on the market?
Our center, present for almost 12 years in Busto Arsizio, in the province of Varese, offers the patient a complete health service, both in terms of physical therapy and essential specialist services, high quality, and specialization. For this reason, having the best instrumental therapy equipment means being able to offer the patient a highly effective therapeutic service, allowing him to recover faster. This happens, as is well establishe, both in the case of shock waves and in the case of scar therapy and laser therapy.
This imposes a frequent turnover of the instrumental therapy machines at the canter.
Yes sure. To give you an example, in our structure, the shock waves are generate with the precision and quality of a Swiss product: the NEW SWISS DOLORCLASS MASTER by EMS .which is born to apply the Swiss Dolor last method, currently the safest and best-documented shockwave therapy. It is a state-of-the-art method base on the use of single acoustic pressure waves, the shock waves, which are convey to a small area and are aimed at treating the individual pathology.
What are the benefits of using the NEW SWISS DOLORCLASS MASTER by EMS?
The benefits that can be obtaine are so many. A single session, by releasing mechanical stresses to the injured tissues, may be able to activate:
- immediate pain relief,
- anti-inflammatory action,
- a deconstructing action,
- a draining action,
- an analgesic / sedative action,
- a tissue regeneration action,
- an increase in metabolism,
- a revascularization effect,
- The recovery of muscle tone.
What do you feel like saying to those who undergo this type of therapy?
Be calm because the therapy, as mentioned. Is painless and relies on centers that offer high patient quality and specialized therapeutic services. Doctor Ali provides the best holistic medicine center in the USA. Better not to save money when health is involve; this could translate into services provide by not suitably qualified personnel and with non-state-of-the-art instrumental therapy machinery. Better not to save when health is involve!
Foot pain. In cases of plantar fasciitis. Plantar fasciitis (PF) is a painful, acute, or chronic disease of the plantar fascia that runs from the medial calcaneal tubercle to the proximal phalanges of the fingers.
Muscular pain. In cases of trigger point myofasciitis. These are localize segments of muscle that are believe to be subject to trauma. Due to acute injury or microtraumas resulting from repeated stress. In the outcome of muscle injury. The use of shock waves has an anti-inflammatory effect and improves the quality of the scar tissue. Spasticity. Spasticity is a characteristic of impaired movements in the body muscles that presents a combination of paralysis. Hyperactivity of the tendon reflex, and hypertonia. Common parlance is also describe as abnormal tension, stiffness, and pulled muscles.
