• Shockwave Therapy or ESWT (Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy) is the use of machine-produced shock waves to generate mechanical forces within a particular tissue in order to stimulate a healing response.
• Physiotherapists use this to treat soft tissue conditions, particularly relating to tendons and fascia, for example, Patellar Tendinopathy seen here.

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• Muscles function via certain nerves using or bodies electrical impulse. Pain is also an experience communicated to our brain via other types of nerves – a mechanism that warns us of tissue damage or injury. 
• In Electrotherapy the Physio essentially takes advantage of this mechanism in order to achieve specific goals such as: 
  • Pain reduction: Examples include the well know modality TENS, Combo-therapy and Interferential Current.
  • Muscle contraction (you may have heard of the commercially available EMS training product ‘Bodytec’ which utilizes this mechanism): Examples include Russian Stimulation and High Volt.
• The physiotherapist capitalizes on pain reduction or enhanced neuromuscular control to optimize movement health.

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• The use of high-frequency sound waves to produce physiological effects in tissue with therapeutic effects, such as improved blood flow and stimulating cellular repair.  
• The best way to describe ultrasound is imperceptible vibration, with uses in soft tissue injury, joint pain and muscle spasm.

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