Shock wave therapy: who needs it and what disease cures Bashny.Net

Shock wave therapy - a relatively new method of treatment of various diseases of the musculoskeletal system, which is used in Russia a little more than ten years. However, the results obtained with it, talk about the great promise of this procedure. Let's look at it in more detail.

Principles of Operation UHT

What are the shock waves? This special sound waves which are in the range of 16 to 25 hertz, which the human ear can not catch. But despite this, these waves have a very important healing properties.

machine shock wave extracorporeal therapy photo
machine shock wave extracorporeal therapy
The fact is, the acoustic impedance of the bone and cartilage tissue is much higher than the resistance of fluids (blood, lymph et al.) Or soft tissue (organs, muscles).

This means that if you miss the acoustic shock waves through some part of the body, they will pass through the soft tissues of the human easily without damage and virtually no delays, but on the border of soft and hard among the waves begin to exert its therapeutic effect.

What is it? If the path of the acoustic shock waves are different salt deposits, calcifications and ossification, the shock waves begin to like "break", crush these pathological education into smaller parts, which subsequently dissolve completely.

In addition, the method UHT has on the body and additional therapeutic effect. Thus, in the zone of influence of shock waves improves metabolism, stimulates blood circulation, increases the protective properties of the cells.

Therapeutic effects

Therapeutic effects with UV-therapy is divided into primary and secondary. Primary effects - these are the results of this treatment, which arise almost immediately, even during the procedure UHT or immediately after it.

The primary effect of UHT:

reduction in the severity of pain (eg, in arthritic joints, heel spur, trochanter);
improvement of blood circulation in the area affected by the shock wave therapy procedures.

In addition, there is a secondary or delayed effects of treatments wave therapy. As the name implies, these effects are not immediately, but after a while after this exposure, but they are no less important.

shock wave therapy in osteoarthritis
shock wave therapy in osteoarthritis
Secondary or delayed effects humidified therapy:

improve mobility in the affected joint or body part (for arthritis, arthritis and other diseases of the joints);
reduction in size and subsequent resorption (decay) calcifications, scars, areas of fibrous tissue, bone spurs, etc .;
strengthening ligaments, joint capsule, tendons and muscles, and improve their resistance to different kinds of injuries and increased physical activity;
improvement of blood circulation in the affected area due to the fact that in her beginning to sprout new blood vessels (capillaries); because of this there is an additional, more stable, reducing pain and improving tissue supply of all organs in the area.

Indications for use UHT

UHT is widely used in treatment of various diseases of the musculoskeletal system - in arthrosis, arthritis, various diseases of the spine. Furthermore, this method of therapy and has found application in urological practice (treatment of erectile dysfunction or impotence) and in the treatment of many other diseases.

The main indications:

deforming osteoarthritis (arthrosis) of large joints;
osteochondrosis of various parts of the spine;
heel spurs (plantar fasciitis);
sports injuries of bone-ligament-articular apparatus (in recovery)
of shoulder periartropatiya;
urolithiasis;
impotence (erectile dysfunction);
rehabilitation in fractures (in the case of delayed union bone);
treatment of heel spurs shock wave therapy
treatment of heel spurs shock wave therapy
synovitis different joints (provided that the disease was not caused by an infection);

trochanter;
Osgood-Schlatter disease (osteochondropathy tibia);
pain in the spine and coccyx due to degenerative disc disease and other diseases;
syndrome "tennis elbow»;
syndrome "hands golfer»;
flat;
Rehabilitation after surgery, total joint replacement (with persistent pain);
herniated discs;
myofascial syndrome.

Contraindications to shock wave therapy

As with the other medical procedures in UHT has its contraindications - which, however, not so much.

These include diseases and conditions such as cancer of the field, which is expected to affect the shock waves, pregnancy, acute infections, blood diseases and high fragility of blood vessels, as well as the presence of the patient's pacemaker.

Furthermore, it is impossible for a UHT areas of bone growth and in areas which are closely contiguous with the major blood vessels, intestines, skull and ribs with lung tissue. In all other cases, including in the presence of metal structures in the bones and joints, wave therapy can be used.

UHT treatments as needed and how much it costs?

In addition, depending on the disease to which the therapy is necessary to influence the wave, the number of sessions may differ. Usually in diseases of the musculoskeletal system is held 5-6 UHT treatments, each of which is held once a week.

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