Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy or ESWT is a new technology to treat chronic, painful conditions of the musculoskeletal system through the use of sound waves.

What makes this treatment unique is that it seems to work best when an injury reaches the chronic, non-healing state.  ESWT manages to do this by restarting the healing process in chronic injuries, returning the tissues into the acute phase of healing. A bit like turning your electronic device off and turning it back on again, it resets the bodies healing systems.