Dr. Wolfgang Schaden is considered the godfather of shockwave therapy. He founded the first international shockwave society, contributed to hundreds of studies, and helped turn a technology he once dismissed as "voodoo" into a field with more than 100 clinical indications.

In this conversation, Uran Berisha sits down with Dr. Schaden to trace the full arc: the 1995 trial where 26 of his 50 worst non-union fracture cases healed unexpectedly, the broken machine that accidentally proved his own theory wrong, and the discovery that shockwave does not destroy tissue but signals the body to regenerate itself. They get into stem cells, wound healing, prevention for athletes, the future of shockwave in heart, brain, and diabetes care, and why so many surgeons still "fix the bone and then pray it heals."

A rare look at where shockwave came from, and where one of its founders believes it is going next.