Shockwave and laser therapies don't inject new stem cells or tissue. They stimulate your body's existing cells to upregulate factors like VEGF, promoting growth and cartilage replication. But they only work if viable tissue already exists; they can't create something from nothing.
What are some things that you think the docs listening would really perk up their ears in terms of, oh wow, that really is going to add something to my practice that's new and different and meaningful?
So this is really cool and is worth the conversation because a lot of the times the verbiage that we use in the world of shockwave therapy can make things feel almost impossible. Like there's no way that can do that, right? You know, hey, this— the word stem cell gets thrown around about a lot. You know, the tissue regeneration capabilities and all that kind of fun stuff. 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, the body doesn't know how to handle. This is all stimulation of tissue that already exists. So what our capabilities are in that world will make sense in a second here. If I have zero cartilage whatsoever and I'm trying to stimulate cartilage growth into a tissue, there's nothing for me to feed off of. I can't just grow cartilage with no stimulation whatsoever. What I can do is I can stimulate the replication process of more. Same idea, if I have an avascular necrosis or I have a bone that has zero blood flow whatsoever, I can't bring in brand new blood flow there. I can stimulate the endothelial level of the blood vessel to stimulate more growth with that hormone of VEGF, which is something that we absolutely do in the world of laser and in shockwave. But it has to have that base to build off of, right? So those are the limitations.
