The musculoskeletal system is subject to various injuries and diseases regardless of the age of a person. Today, about 80% of cases of visiting a doctor of people of different age categories are related to the widespread problems with joints. The main causes of such pathology are mechanical damage, overweight, repeating the same type of load, senile deformations.
The process of deterioration of the state and work of the joints, tendons and muscles can not always be stopped with traditional treatment. The latter and most effective development in this field of medicine is shock-wave therapy.
Entity of shock-wave treatment
The shock wave belongs to an infrasound spectrum, and a person's ear cannot catch its frequency (less than 16-25 Hz). Infrasound generate natural and man-made factors. Natural sources include storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, to technogenic - wind power plants, transport, etc.
From the sound shock wave is distinguished by high amplitude of energy and insignificant pulse by duration. The modern technique that is used for the UVT procedure is working, based on the so-called cavitation principle, which operates on the edge section of the media section. The resistance of liquids and soft tissues of the body acoustic wave is minimal, so the wave energy will freely penetrate into soft tissues, without applying them any harm. Waves affect bones and cartilage, as well as various seals, such as calcifications and ossification. Treatment of shock-wave therapy helps to restore and establish natural metabolism, update all systems at the cellular level and improve tissue nutrition.
The source of energy consumption determines the type of UVT. They are electromagnetic, electro-hydraulic, piezoelectric. Pneumatic equipment is considered the safest and economical.
Results of the effect of shock waves on the human body
Treatment of shock-wave therapy may be dangerous to health:
- future mothers;
- people with oncological diseases and diabetes;
- Patients with acute infections;
- people who enjoy the pacemaker. At the same time, various metal structures in the field of influence do not impede;
- Patients who diagnosed violations of coagulation properties of blood and weakened vessel walls.
In addition, there are a number of organism segments, which cannot be affected by acoustic shock waves. These are the place of growth of bones, where the presence of powerful energy from outside can cause irreversible pathologies for the development of the skeleton. Patients under 20 years old, UVT procedures do not appoint.
Also on the energy of the waves, the vulnerable tissue of the lungs, skull, intestines and large vessels are fencing.
Advantages of the treatment of UVT
Indisputable «a plus» In therapy, shock waves is the possibility of outpatient treatment without forced changes in the rhythm of life to which the patient is used to. As an exception, you can call cases when the patient is strongly recommended to wear an orthopedic corset, so as not to overload the skeleton.
The method of shock-wave therapy is also attractive in the absence of side effects and complications that the patient may face after any invasive operation. WTW procedures (several sessions for 15 minutes) pass without anesthesia. The number of sessions and the duration of the course depends on the acuteness and duration of the disease.
MirSees proposes to consider how the shock-wave therapy method works on the example Heel Spur.
Shock-wave effect on the heel vehicle
The official name of the heel spur - Platarian Facege. Injury looks like a scar in the upper section of the plantar bundle, in the place where it is adjacent to the heel bone.
Spur states sharp pains when a person relies on the heel. Gradually, a fibrous fabric is formed in the area of injury, in its thicker, calcium is postponed over time. Its connections do not dissolve. These rude neoplasms annoy the surrounding tissues, contribute to their inflammation and, in fact, become the root cause of characteristic pain syndrome.
On the X-ray image of the plantar fasciite plot is so dense that it can be taken for bone tissue, which is a continuation of the main bone. Looks like a spur, like pointed spike, bump, beak or wedge. During the diagnosis of the disease, experts take into account that at the initial stage of the fascination, when there are noise, but the calcium deposits have not yet managed to form, x-ray nothing «Will not see».
In the correction of the heel spur, the most effective alternative operation is recognized by shock-wave therapy. On the affected area affect the pulsed bundle of the powerful energy of the sound waves. A favorable effect is noticeable immediately: discomfort is significantly reduced while walking, blood circulation and metabolism is activated in «Patients» fabrics are stimulated by their restoration. According to patient reviews, pain disappears immediately after the end of the first session of UVT.
The device by which the wave effect on the patient's body is carried out, creates and increases the power of the shock wave, which has for special qualities. The entire course of treatment, as a rule, lasts 7 procedures lasting 25-30 minutes. Between sessions make breaks for 3-4 days. The result of such treatment is the development of everyone without exception of patients of a persistent positive effect with the full elimination of pain impulses.
UPT equipment initially creates and accumulates sound waves with a certain frequency, due to their effects in the affected area begins the rapid restoration of dense tissues. In addition, the permeability of the membrane cell walls increases, which effectively relieves inflammation and reduces swelling in a problem.
In the fight against planar fasci, the method of shock-wave therapy has become a real breakthrough. If earlier pain shifts have stopped strong analgesics or radically solved the problem by surgical operation, today the WTW procedure has become salvation for 90% of patients who avoided surgery and got rid of the unpleasant heel on the heel.
