Jeff Langmaid explains how shockwave therapy triggers your body's own healing without adding foreign material. Even 1% of remaining cartilage can regenerate when stimulated mechanically. The therapy works by activating fibrinogen cells to replicate and grow faster.
A reminder for therapies like Shockwave is that we're not introducing anything new to the human body. I'm not bringing exogenous stem cell production. I'm not bringing in new fibers that the body doesn't know how to handle. This is all stimulation of tissue that already exists. But we do have this awesome opportunity to replicate tissue and stimulate more growth of what's already there. So, again, Even if it's 99% gone, that 1% can help improve that cartilage growth. And the way that it works on the higher level is that we found through the research is that fibrinogen itself, that molecul, is mechanoreceptive or mechanoduplicating, which means that I can actually stimulate that cell to then elongate the cell, replicate it faster through something like Shockwave therapy.
