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CELLULAR LEVEL
HEALING & PAIN
RELIEF been long studied by brilliant minds
theory.
There is currently great interest in the such as Albert Einstein’s vibrational
use of Extracorporeal Shock Wave
Therapy (ESWT) and in clarifying the Many recent studies demonstrated the
mechanisms of action in tendon modulations of shockwave treatment
pathologies. From the physical point of including neovascularization,
view a shock wave is defined by an differentiation of mesenchymal stem
cells and local release of angiogenetic
abrupt, nearly discontinuous change in BY AUDREY DELANEY
pressure and by having a velocity that is factors. Current studies have expanded
higher than the speed of sound. As any to demonstrate the modulations of
other wave, the shockwave is subject to shockwave treatment including
the physical laws of reflection, neovascularization, differentiation of
refraction, diffraction and absorption. mesenchymal stem cells and local
When these pressure waves repeatedly release of several biological growth-
propogste in a targeted tissue,
cavitation waves compound in
force to activate a dose
dependent response- cellular
healing.
The physics invilved in this
benefitial tissue disruption have
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