Warren J. Bleiweiss, MD, PA Blog

Acoustic Wave Therapy

Benefits of Acoustic Wave Therapy for Pain Management

In the past, patients suffering from chronic or acute pain due to disease or injury were often faced with a difficult decision. Either they were prescribed habit-forming medication with potentially harmful side effects, weeks of intense physical therapy, or forced to undergo risky surgery depending on the source and severity of their discomfort. Now, however,

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Exploring the Role of Acoustic Wave Therapy in Integrative Medicine

If you are suffering from a painful musculoskeletal condition but are wary of undergoing invasive surgery, there is an effective alternative treatment option you should be aware of. Acoustic wave therapy (AWT), sometimes called shock wave therapy, is a non-invasive regenerative treatment option that uses high-frequency sound waves to stimulate healing in affected muscles and

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How Acoustic Shock Wave Therapy Is Used in Pain Management

Chronic and acute pain is often too intense to simply “tough it out.” What’s worse, chronic and acute pain can be caused by many different conditions, like a traumatic injury, plantar fasciitis (heel pain), tennis or golfer’s elbow, Achilles tendonitis, shin splints, rotator cuff tendonitis, patellar tendonitis, or hip bursitis. Typically, doctors will prescribe pain

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