In this segment, the presenter explains the core mechanism of shockwave therapy. Unlike ultrasound, the treatment uses slower, more robust sound waves that generate a pressurized change within various tissues. This pressure wave impacts bone, muscle, ligaments, and skin, causing the normally stiff tissue to behave more like a fluid, thereby promoting a more fluid motion in the affected area.
It almost looks like or feels like I'm turning this muscle tissue or this harder tissue into a little bit more fluid motion. And that's because of that shockwave activity that's happening. So when it's very, very basic, we're using sound waves, not like ultrasound, but more slower, more robust sound waves to create a pressurized change at some level into the tissue. And that pressurized change is going to happen to the bone tissue, to the muscle tissue, to the ligaments, to the skin, and all of those different areas are going to have a response to that sound wave.
