Shockwave Therapy is an effective and safe non invasive treatment option for tendons and other pathologies of the muscular skeletal system Here is a sound systematic review in which over 31,000 papers RTCs has from the Physiotherapy Evidence Database by the British Medical Bulletin Everyone will be happy to read this review on shockwave therapy
Quotes from the British Medical Bulletin November 2015
One of the primary reasons for the underuse of shockwave therapy is a generalized unfamiliarity with the technique Prior studies on tendinopathy showed that ESWT can be as or more effective than other forms of treatment including eccentric exercise, traditional physiotherapy steroid injections injections of platelet rich plasma and surgery
ESWT is safe, technically easy to perform and helpful in some conditions
