Shockwave Therapy

Our Approach: Stimulate Repair in Tissue That Has Stalled

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy delivers focused acoustic pulses into injured tissue to provoke a healing response where the body's own repair process has stalled. Its strongest evidence is in chronic tendon and fascia problems — plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinopathy that have persisted despite stretching, orthotics, and time.

This matters because chronic tendon problems are often degenerative rather than inflammatory, which is exactly why anti-inflammatory approaches disappoint in long-standing cases. Shockwave targets the underlying tissue quality rather than the inflammation, which is why it frequently succeeds where months of other treatment have not.

Recognizing the Signs: Who Benefits Most

The ideal candidate has had symptoms for months rather than days, has genuinely tried conservative care, and wants to avoid surgery or repeated corticosteroid injections. Chronic plantar fasciitis is the single most common indication we treat.

Shockwave is not appropriate for everyone — acute injuries, certain circulation and clotting conditions, and some other situations rule it out. We screen for that before recommending it rather than after.

Recovery: Weekly Sessions, No Downtime

Treatment is typically a series of weekly sessions. The applicator is noisy and briefly uncomfortable, which most patients rate as very tolerable, and it takes only minutes. There is no anesthesia, no incision, and no downtime — you walk out and go about your day.

Improvement builds over weeks rather than appearing immediately, because you are waiting on a biological healing response rather than a numbing effect. Compared with a corticosteroid injection, which quiets inflammation quickly but does not rebuild tissue and carries limits on repetition, shockwave works more slowly toward actual repair. For chronic degenerative tendon problems we often prefer it for exactly that reason.