What is DolorClast® Focused Shock Waves?

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Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) is the application of Shock Waves in medicine.

It is clinically proven that pressure waves, when applied to injured tissues, stimulate metabolic reactions:

  • Reduction of pain felt by nerve fibers
  • Increase of blood circulation in surrounding soft tissues
  • Beginning of healing process triggered by stem cells activation

Use DolorClast® Focused Shock Waves for:

  • Deep indications
  • Sub-acute or chronic pathologies
  • Deep calcified lesions or myotendinous tears, nonunions fractures or
  • enthesopathies located on the elbow and recalcitrant to heal. ​

Which shock waves are most effective?

Focused-ESWT

The formula is simple: the more energy delivered into the tissue, the better the therapeutic outcome

The compression phase in focused ESWT is usually shorter than in radial ESWT.

The maximum pressure P+ in focused ESWT is usually higher than in radial ESWT.

Both focused and radial ESWT can reach an ED+ of 0.4 mJ/mm2, which has been clinically proven to be sufficient for almost all ESWT indications on the musculoskeletal system and the skin.

Focused shock wave visualization

1,000 pressure waves (P+ wave front) penetrate the skin and travel through the tissue focusing on a cigar-shaped volume (midpoint focus).

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A depression phase (P-) follows, generating cavitation bubbles. These bubbles collapse causing secondary shock waves.

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