Joints, Bones, and Injury Rehabilitation

Knee, elbow, wrist, shoulder, hip, and foot problems, sports injuries or pain caused by soft tissue or bone problems can be debilitating, difficult to manage, and cause a great deal of stress.

These conditions can impact the quality of your life and mean that you’re unable to exercise or do the things you enjoy.

You may have to take regular pain relief medication, which still doesn’t always relieve your discomfort, and can cause side effects. Sometimes, surgery can seem like your only option, which is daunting and not without risk.

Acoustic Bodywave therapy is an innovative therapy that can target specific pain in the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. It’s a non-invasive treatment that can be delivered on an outpatient basis and gives significant or total relief of pain in the vast majority of patients.

Multiple scientific papers have found that it can successfully treat conditions such as heel pain caused by plantar fasciitis, and Achilles tendinopathy.

There are no known side effects to having this therapy. 

Acoustic Bodywave therapy is beneficial for patients with painful soft tissue (muscle, tendons and ligaments), joint and bone conditions. 

You  may have to take regular pain relief medication, which still doesn’t  always relieve your discomfort, and can cause side effects. Sometimes, surgery can seem like your only option, which  is daunting and not without risk.

Acoustic Bodywave therapy is an innovative therapy that can target specific pain in the bones, joints,  muscles, tendons and ligaments. It’s a non-invasive treatment that can be delivered on an out patient basis and gives significant or total relief of pain in the vast majority of patients.

Multiple scientific papers have found that it can successfully treat conditions such as heel pain caused by plantar fasciitis, and Achilles tendinopathy.

There  are no known side effects to having this therapy. 

Acoustic Bodywave therapy is beneficial for patients with painful soft tissue (muscle, tendons and ligaments), joint and bone conditions. 

Most commonly, Acoustic Bodywave therapy is used to help treat the following conditions:

• Achilles tendinopathy (pain in the tendon that connects the back of the foot to the calf muscle)
• Plantar fasciitis (pain in the underside of the foot)
• Tennis elbow (pain on the outer side of the elbow)
• Golfers elbow (pain on the inner side of the elbow)
• Patellofemoral syndrome (runner’s knee)
• Iliotibial  band Syndrome, or ITBS (pain that stretches from the outside of the hip down the outer thigh to the outside of the knee caused by running and  cycling)
• Medial tibial stress syndrome (shin splints)
• Bony heel spurs

Acoustic Bodywave therapy is delivered directly onto the skin that covers the affected area. This kind of pain relief therapy uses low energy sound or acoustic waves that can easily penetrate the skin, and radiate throughout the affected muscle, joint or tendon. 

The sound waves stimulate blood flow to the area, and help the body to naturally heal inflammation, and stimulate the repair and regeneration of cells. 

Damaged or injured tissues then begin to repair and cause the associated pain to reduce.

If you have scar tissue in the area that’s contributing to your pain, Acoustic Bodywave therapy will also help to break down this thick, fibrous tissue.  

Scar tissue causes immobility in the surrounding tissues as unlike normal tissues, it isn’t very elastic. Breaking it down using sound waves helps to improve mobility and reduce discomfort.

Once your treatment is finished, you’ll be able to go home and return to work and your normal daily activities immediately. You should avoid high impact exercise such as running or playing tennis for the first 48 hours after treatment.

If you feel any discomfort, you can take tylenol if you’re able, but avoid taking a non-steroidal  anti-inflammatory painkiller such as ibuprofen or aspirin as it will counteract the treatment and reduce its effectiveness.

In the days following therapy, you may experience swelling and redness in the treated area.  This can make your pain feel worse, but this is indicative of the healing process, is completely normal and will subside within a day or two.

Most patients require five or six sessions of Acoustic Bodywave therapy, usually twice a week for 3 weeks. Your specialist will be able to discuss your particular case and expectations with you.