Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

How Shockwave Primes the Body for Surgery (and Speeds Recovery After)

11 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video (Jeff Langmaid) describing clinical uses of Shockwave therapy. The speaker endorses Shockwave for treating frozen shoulder and proposes using Shockwave before surgery to "prime" joints by increasing blood flow and collagen production, and again several weeks after surgery (about 3–6 weeks) to promote healing and limit scar-tissue formation for improved recovery.

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So it needs to be on that list too, because nothing will. Nothing will knock that out as well as Shockwave can frozen shoulder. I will kind of connect with that. And then I love this around surgery, pre and post replacements, pre and post major repairs. It's almost like using PRP like we are now too, to prime the joint. So we have Shockwave to prime it to get more blood flow and collagen production before surgery. And then three, four, five, six weeks later, depending on the surgery, we can start doing Shockwave again to get their body healing that particular spot and inhibiting some of the scar tissue growth, giving them such a more robust outcome or a much easier transition back into regular life.