When rest, stretching, and other treatments haven't worked — shockwave therapy stimulates your body's own healing response to break through chronic pain.
Understanding the Treatment
Shockwave therapy uses high-energy acoustic sound waves directed into painful areas of the body. These pulses stimulate the body's natural healing processes — increasing blood flow, breaking down scar tissue and calcium deposits, and jumpstarting tissue repair in areas that have become stuck in a chronic pain cycle.
It's especially effective for conditions where the body has stopped healing on its own — like long-standing tendon injuries, plantar fasciitis, and calcified deposits in the shoulder.
Chronic injuries often get "stuck" — blood flow decreases and the healing response shuts down. Shockwave breaks this cycle by creating a controlled micro-trauma that restarts the healing process.
The Process
Dr. Knochel identifies the precise area of chronic injury or pain that will benefit from shockwave.
A coupling gel is applied to your skin to help transmit the sound waves deeply and effectively into tissue.
The handheld device delivers rapid acoustic pulses — the session takes 15–20 minutes. No anesthesia needed.
Conditions We Treat
One of the most successful applications. Shockwave breaks down the fibrous tissue and restores healthy healing in the heel and arch.
Works well for Achilles tendonitis, patellar tendonitis, and tennis/golfer's elbow by stimulating collagen production in damaged tendons.
Shockwave effectively breaks up calcium deposits in the rotator cuff — restoring shoulder mobility without surgery.
For muscle attachments and trigger points in the back that haven't responded to other treatments.
Helps runners and active patients dealing with IT band syndrome, hip bursitis, and greater trochanteric pain.
Effective for patellar tendinopathy and other chronic knee conditions where soft tissue has degenerated.
Why Patients Choose Shockwave
Each session takes just 15–20 minutes. You can get treated during a lunch break and return to work immediately.
Shockwave achieves results comparable to surgery for many tendon and soft-tissue conditions — without the risks or recovery time.
No medications, injections, or anesthesia. Shockwave works with your body's natural healing mechanisms.
Because shockwave stimulates actual tissue healing (not just masking pain), results tend to be durable and progressive.
Common Questions
You'll feel a pulsing sensation and some discomfort in the area being treated — especially in very tender spots. The intensity is adjusted to your tolerance, and sessions are short enough that most patients tolerate it well.
Most patients need 3–6 sessions, spaced about 1 week apart. Significant improvement is typically noticed after the 2nd or 3rd session.
We recommend avoiding high-impact exercise on the treated area for 24–48 hours after each session to allow the healing response to work properly. Normal daily activities are fine.
Shockwave is not recommended for patients who are pregnant, have blood clotting disorders, active infections over the treatment site, or those on blood thinners. Dr. Knochel will review your health history before recommending treatment.
Find out if shockwave therapy is the breakthrough you've been waiting for. Book a consultation with Dr. Knochel today.
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