Shockwave therapy brings new healing opportunities for heart attack patients and hope for people with spinal cord injuries
Success Story of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT)Successful for over 40 years in urology for the disintegration of kidney stones, with high efficiency and hardly any side effects worth mentioning. How does the shock wave work? Without causing mechanical damage, shockwaves trigger a biological response in the treated tissue through their compressive, tensile and shear forces (mechanotransduction). Genes are activated in the cell nucleus starting to produce proteins (including growth factors) responsible for the healing…
Source: RealWire