Jeff Langmaid explains shockwave therapy, which uses pulse waves to dilate blood vessels and increase oxygen for healing. Originally developed in the 1980s for kidney stones, it now treats inflammation and soft-tissue pain. Clinics can offer it as a profitable service with lower equipment costs than ultrasound or laser therapy.
Basically, it's a shock wave. It generates a pulse, a wave pulse, you know, into the tissue, and that penetrates and dilates the blood vessels. Oxygen promotes healing. The technology started, you know, probably in the 1980s with, you know, with lithotripsy to break up kidney stones. And since then, you know, the technology has been refined and reduced to where it can be used for inflammation, pain, just soft tissue recovery. And so you can. You can provide these treatments, you know, sell a series of treatments and pay for your machine and have a good revenue generator that is profitable and quickly profitable with a low cost of ownership. And that's new. That's relatively new compared to the other modalities that have been out there historically, like ultrasound therapy or laser therapy. So shockwave is kind of the next one.
