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Shockwave therapy
Shockwave therapy has become an important tool for orthopaedic treatments over the last years. Due to the experience our clinic has gained over the last 10 years (since 1997) in this field, we where one of the forerunners when shockwave therapy was introduced worldwide. Today various techniques of shockwave therapy have been introduced into equine medicines, giving this form of therapy a larger area of use.
There are two types of shockwaves; focused shockwaves and radial shockwaves. In our clinic, we use the focused shockwaves because radial shockwaves are limited in their penetration ability. Focused shockwaves have a penetration depth up to 8 cm within the damaged locations of tissues like tendons, ligaments or periosteum. Typical keywords for shockwave therapy are: navicular region, high suspensory ligament, tendons, sesamoid bones, periosteum, ligament ruptures, exostoses, arthrosis etc. Since last year, we combine shockwave therapy with MRI because in this way we can get a better diagnose and therefore better results with the appliance of shockwaves.
The focused shockwaves concentrate all their energy at one point, and do not irritate the tissue it penetrates trough.
We use four kinds of different heads for applying shockwave therapy: 5 mm, 20 mm, 35 mm and 80 mm.
