Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

The Rise of Shock Wave Therapy: Revolutionizing Healthcare

5 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Jeff Langmaid explaining the history and commercialization of shock wave therapy. The speaker traces origins to lithotripsy in the 1980s, describes technical refinements for treating inflammation, pain, and soft-tissue recovery, and notes a recent shift (radial/electromagnetic devices) in the last decade that has greatly reduced manufacturing cost. In the past ~5 years these machines became affordable for chiropractic and physician offices, enabling profitable in-office treatments.

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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 then we've seen a, you know, a major shift in the last, you know, last decade where the technology has moved to what they call like a radial or electromagnetic shock wave to. And that brought the manufacturing and the cost of the device is way down. So in the last five or so years, now these machines are affordable to put into a chiropractic's office or any physician's office and do treatments there. And since they're affordable now, they're profitable.