TREATMENT OF TENDINITIS WITH SHOCKWAVE THERAPY

Shockwaves are sound waves characterized by abrupt and substantial pressure changes with high amplitude and discontinuity. Shockwaves have a particularly broad pressure amplitude, allowing the body to absorb the waves more effectively. This is a non-invasive treatment method.

Shockwave therapy is a treatment for musculoskeletal disorders with outstanding features such as :

• Interacting with tissues in the body, creating a local impact, promoting tissue and cell recovery, reducing pain, swelling, and inflammation, and restoring mobility due to high-energy sound waves.

• Shockwave therapy provides nutritional blood flow to initiate and recover damaged tissues, because sound waves create small capillary ruptures in tendons and bones, causing micro-arterial restructuring to develop and form. These new blood vessels will improve blood supply and heal wounds faster in tendons and bones.
• Acting on painful points and injured musculoskeletal tissues, thereby promoting wound healing, bone regeneration, tendons, and other soft tissues.
• In addition to the effects of shockwave therapy as above, it also produces enough collagen, which makes the process of restoring damaged tissue structure, bones, and ligaments faster. Sound waves in a shockwave machine can dissolve calcifications and eliminate biological calcification, so that patients can restore their ability to move and stand normally.

How effective is shockwave therapy for tendonitis?

Most cases of tendonitis can be treated with rest, pain medication, or shockwave therapy. The advantages of this treatment method are :

• Patients will experience rapid and effective pain relief with this treatment.
• It helps patients avoid surgical intervention or injections into the tendons and joints, thereby reducing the risk of tendon rupture, tendon tears, skin atrophy, infection, etc., caused by injections.
• In particular, the treatment time for this method is fast, usually 3-6 times per course, with each session 5-7 days apart, and each treatment lasting only 10-15 minutes.

Precautions after shockwave therapy for tendon inflammation

After shockwave therapy for tendinitis, patients should keep the following in mind to maximize the treatment process and limit recurrence of the condition :

• After treatment, avoid putting stress on the affected area. If pain occurs during exercise, stop and rest to relax.
• Incorporate a variety of exercises to help reduce the strain of certain body parts having to work continuously. However, proper posture should be maintained during exercise if posture is incorrect.
• Gently stretch the muscles after exercise to reduce injuries, and strengthen the muscles to help increase their endurance.