Game-Changing Technology for Chronic Pain
Shockwave is used by practitioners including physiotherapists, urologists, chiropractors, aestheticians and others to treat numerous conditions including the following Approved standard indications:
Chronic Tendinopathies
- Calcifying tendinopathy of the shoulder
- Lateral epicondylopathy of the elbow (tennis elbow)
- Greater trochanter pain syndrome
- Patellar tendinopathy
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Plantar fasciitis, with or without heel spur
Bone Pathologies
- Delayed bone healing
- Bone Non-Union (pseudarthroses)
- Stress fracture
- Avascular bone necrosis without articular derangement
- Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) without articular derangement
Skin Pathologies
- Delayed or non-healing wounds
- Skin ulcers
- Non-circumferential burn wounds
Tendinopathies
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy without calcification
- Medial epicondylopathy of the elbow
- Adductor tendinopathy syndrome
- Pes-Anserinus tendinopathy syndrome
- Peroneal tendinopathy
- Foot and ankle tendinopathies
Bone Pathologies
- Bone marrow edema
- Osgood Schlatter disease: Apophysitis of the anterior tibial tubercle
- Tibial stress syndrome (shin splint)
Muscle Pathologies
- Myofascial Syndrome
- Muscle sprain without discontinuity
Skin Pathologies
Musculoskeletal pathologies
- Osteoarthritis
- Dupuytren disease
- Plantar fibromatosis (Ledderhose disease)
- De Quervain disease
- Trigger finger
Neurological pathologies
- Spasticity
- Polyneuropathy
- Polyneuropathy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Urologic pathologies
- Pelvic chronic pain syndrome (abacterial prostatitis)
- Erectile dysfunction
- Peyronie disease
Others
Radial and focused waves with low energy
- Malignant tumor in the treatment area (not as underlying disease)
- Fetus in the treatment area
High energy focused waves
- Lung tissue in the treatment area
- Malignant tumor in the treatment area (not as underlying disease)
- Epiphyseal plate in the treatment area
- Brain or Spine in the treatment area
- Severe coagulopathy
- Fetus in the treatment area
Heart Muscle Ischemia
Peripheral nerve lesions
Pathologies of the spinal cord and brain
Skin calcinosis
Periodontal disease
Jawbone pathologies
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Osteoporosis