Two emerging treatments show promise for bone healing: the wasabi method, which applies treatment to soft tissue near bones so healing factors diffuse in, and shockwave therapy, which signals the body to increase osteoblast production. Both aim to boost the cells that build bone without disrupting the balance with cells that break it down.
With wasabi method. You don't use it directly over a bone. You just use it in the soft tissues near the bone and then the healing factors get into the bones. How does that work?
No, you do, you can use it.
Right over the bone.
It's not pleasant, but the physiology there is. We're causing proliferation of osteoblasts. So osteoblasts are just bone cells. So there's two essential types of bone cells. You have osteoblasts which make new bone and you have osteoclasts which break down bone. What we want ideally in the human body is they work at the same level. So you don't get increased bone, but you don't get a bone loss with like osteopenia or osteoporosis when someone has a fracture. We want the body to increase the osteoblast because it's got to fix the bone. So if we treat it with shockwave, we're telling the body make more of these repairmen that will help that bone knit together and it works very well. There's many peer reviewed journals that demonstrate that that's very effective.
