Is shock wave therapy good for myofasciitis?

Shock wave therapy for myofasciitis is actually a relatively effective method, and it causes minimal damage, is short in duration and has low risks. Therefore, using shock wave therapy for myofasciitis is a better method, but you also need to pay attention to the doctor's treatment advice.

1. Clinical Application

A therapy that uses the principle of shock waves to reverse pathological changes in the body's muscles, bones, internal organs and other tissues. Its main medical applications include: shock therapy for tumors and cancer cells throughout the body; skeletal system's periarthritis of the shoulder, tennis elbow, patellar tendinitis, heel pain, etc.; extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for the urinary system, etc.

Second, the advantages of extracorporeal shock wave are:

(1) The injury is minor and can replace some surgical treatments;

(2) Generally, simple anesthesia is used or no anesthesia is required;

(3) The treatment time is short, the risk is low, and the treatment can be performed in an outpatient clinic;

(4) No special postoperative treatment is required, and recovery is relatively fast;

(5) The cost of treatment is much lower than open surgery.

3. Indications

1. Various orthopedic diseases: pain caused by acute and chronic traumatic diseases, frozen shoulder, subacromial bursitis, long head of biceps tendonitis, calcific supraspinatus tendonitis; tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), medial epicondylitis; chronic traumatic diseases of the hip and knee, such as snapping hip, jumper's knee (osteochondritis of the tibial tubercle epiphysis), knee arthritis; heel diseases: heel pain and plantar fasciitis, etc.; lumbar muscle strain, acute and chronic lumbar soft tissue injuries.

2. Delayed fracture healing, nonunion, etc.

3. Ischemic necrosis of the femoral head.

4. Joint stiffness caused by surgery or soft tissue adhesion and contracture.