Shockwave Therapy is most often used to treat orthopedic pain, especially joint, muscle, fascia, nerve, and scar tissue pain from the following conditions:

Chronic Tendinopathies:

Calcifying tendinopathy of the shoulder
Lateral epicondylopathy of the elbow (tennis elbow)
Greater trochanter pain syndrome
Patellar tendinopathy (Jumper’s Knee)
Achilles tendinopathy
Plantar fasciitis, with or without heel spur
Rotator cuff tendinopathy without calcification
Medial epicondylopathy of the elbow
Adductor tendinopathy syndrome
Pes-Anserinus tendinopathy syndrome
Peroneal tendinopathy
Foot and ankle tendinopathies
Trigger Finger

Musculoskeletal pathologies

Acute (sudden) and chronic (long-term) musculoskeletal injuries
Chronic non-specific low back pain
Neck pain.
Osteoarthritis
Dupuytren disease
Plantar fibromatosis (Ledderhose disease)
De Quervain disease
Trigger finger
Frozen Shoulder
Ligament injuries and sprains
Greater trochanteric pain syndrome (lateral hip pain)
Morton’s Neuroma

Muscle Pathologies

Myofascial Syndrome
Muscle sprain without discontinuity
Hamstring injury
Muscle tears and strain
Myofascial pain and adhesions related to old injury or surgery

Bone Pathologies

Acute Fracture (F-ESWT only)
Chronic pain due to incomplete healing of fracture
Delayed bone healing
Bone Non-Union (pseudarthroses)
Stress fracture
Avascular bone necrosis without articular derangement
Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) without articular derangement
Bone marrow edema
Osgood Schlatter disease: Apophysitis of the anterior tibial tubercle
Tibial stress syndrome (shin splint)
Knee Osteoarthritis
Neurological Pathologies
Spasticity
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Polyneuropathy

Skin Pathologies

Delayed or non-healing wounds
Skin ulcers
Non-circumferential burn wounds
Cellulite

Urologic pathologies

Pelvic chronic pain syndrome (abacterial prostatitis)
Erectile dysfunction
Peyronie disease

Others

Lymphedema

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