Shockwave Therapy and Why We Use it at All Care Physiotherapy
Shockwave Therapy (SWT) is our secret weapon to help with healing damaged tissues, settling pain and speeding up recovery.
Combined with our other state of the art techniques and exercises, shockwave therapy has consistently helped our clients reduce pain and speed up their recovery.
Shockwave therapy is an acoustic wave with high energy which we direct to your painful spots in your musculoskeletal tissues in subacute or chronic painful conditions. This energy helps the process of healing in soft tissues, tendons, ligaments and even bone.
The effects of shockwave therapy are many and include reduction in pain mediators like substance P, new blood vessel formation, reduction in chronic inflammation, stimulation of collagen production and reduction of trigger points. All these effects result in increased healing times and decreased pain allowing you to recover at a faster rate.
Shockwave therapy is delivered in our clinic via a specialised machine with a specific sound head that we place over the affected area for treatment. Treatment time only takes about 5 minutes for most conditions.
We have successfully treated a wide range of conditions that include
- Achilles tendinopathy (Achilles pain)
- Tennis elbow
- Rotator cuff related pain
- Hip bursitis
- Trigger points
- Plantar fasciitis
- Chronic low back pain
- Trigger points
