Focused Shockwave Therapy
Noninvasive Shockwaves to Heal Faster So You Can Feel Better Sooner
Soft tissue and joint pain can be debilitating, affecting everyone from those who sit at a desk all day to weekend warriors to football players. Finding relief is essential for maintaining your overall health, wellness, and lifestyle. Safe, painless shockwave therapy could be the answer.
We are the only clinic in Chicago that utilizes the most advanced shockwave therapy devices: the Storz Duolith focused shockwave and Miracle Wave radial shockwave.
This cutting-edge, noninvasive treatment for damage to joints and tissues can help both sedentary and highly active people. We have witnessed its impressive results firsthand.
We are proud to serve the Chicago area with radial and focused shockwave therapies. Our team has developed many of the current shockwave protocols and is honored to host radial and focused shockwave seminars internationally, elevating the health of patients worldwide.
If you’re struggling with chronic pain, limited motion, stiffness, or other musculoskeletal discomfort, let us conduct a thorough evaluation to see if shockwave therapy is right for you. It can help with both mild dysfunction and significant conditions, including joint degeneration, arthritis, scar tissue, and tendinopathies.
Don’t let your pain hinder one more day.
What is Shockwave Therapy?
Shockwave therapy is a modern, noninvasive rehabilitation technique that harnesses the body's innate healing mechanisms. Delivering controlled acoustic waves to injured areas effectively alleviates pain and accelerates recovery from various musculoskeletal conditions, including sprains, fractures, and muscle pain.
The therapy works by triggering the release of growth factors in damaged tissues, which is crucial in regulating tissue repair and promoting overall healing. This approach has shown superior outcomes compared to traditional treatments, offering several advantages, including:
- Greater efficacy than corticosteroid injections, with a lower risk profile
- More potent regenerative effects in soft tissues and joints than stem-cell injections
- Significantly reduced recovery time
Shockwave therapy has emerged as a preferred option for many patients, especially athletes, seeking fast, safe, and effective relief from musculoskeletal injuries and chronic pain conditions.
How Does Shockwave Therapy Work?
Shockwave therapy speeds up your body's natural healing process by stimulating and enhancing blood flow to regenerate damaged tissue. It sends intense energy pulses to the affected area, triggering the body's natural healing response.
In 25-30 minutes of physical therapy, we use 8-15k of radial and focused shockwaves compared to our competitors, who only utilize 2-4k pulses over 5-10 minutes with a radial pulse machine. These pulses penetrate tissue, stimulating cell regeneration in the body.
Our patients receive both types of shockwave therapy:
- Focused shockwave therapy sends shock waves to a small area of the body
- Radial shockwave therapy sends shockwaves to a broad area, such as along the entire length of an injured muscle.
By incorporating shockwave therapy into our practice, we aim to provide our patients with the most advanced and proven treatment options in modern chiropractic care.
Is Shockwave Treatment Right for You?
Focused shockwave treatment can mean a quicker return to play or training from traumas like sprains, pulled muscles, and fractures when used for athletic injuries. As the only clinic in Chicago offering focused shockwave treatment, we are considered the gold-standard treatment for sports injuries.
However, shockwave therapy is also provided to our office-oriented or sedentary patients and has shown incredible results, alleviating discomforts and restoring motion quickly and responsibly.
If you suffer from one of the following conditions, you might be a good candidate for shockwave therapy:
- Plantar fasciitis
- Knee degeneration
- Hip degeneration
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Achilles tendon bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Frozen shoulder
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer’s elbow
- Calcific tendonitis
- Jumper’s knee
- Morton’s neuroma
- Chronic stress fractures
- And others
For many people, shockwave therapy is most effective when the body hasn’t been able to heal well on its own.
If you have questions about this treatment or any of our chiropractic solutions, please contact our team today. We’ll be happy to help.
The Many Benefits of Shockwave Therapy
Our Evanston chiropractic team proudly offers shockwave therapy, witnessing its remarkable effectiveness firsthand. This innovative treatment stands out as one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal for sports injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management.
Based on our extensive clinical experience, we've found shockwave therapy to be exceptionally beneficial for patients seeking rapid recovery and long-lasting relief. Whether you're an athlete looking to get back in the game or someone dealing with persistent discomfort, this cutting-edge therapy offers a safe and highly effective solution.
Shockwave therapy's effectiveness is backed by hundreds of rigorous studies, with many patients hailing it as the most effective pain treatment they've ever experienced. This innovative therapy offers a compelling combination of benefits.
Common benefits of shockwave therapy include:
- Proven efficacy
- Minimal risk
- No complications
- Little to no recovery time
- Painless, conservative application, it’s an outpatient procedure
- Lasting results
- Quickly restored motion patterns, mobility, comfort, and flexibility
- Can remedy chronic pain
- An alternative to medication, surgery, or aggressive methods
- Accelerates tissue repair and cell growth
- Reduces chronic inflammation
- Produces collagen
- Forms new blood vessels
Why continue to live with pain when an effective solution is within reach?
Don't let pain dictate your life any longer. Relief is just an appointment away.
Comprehensive Chiropractic Solutions for Real & Lasting Results
We're committed to helping you thrive through proven and reliable solutions. Our clinic offers diverse treatments, recognizing that a comprehensive, personalized approach delivers the best results for our patients' health and well-being.
Some of the natural treatments and services we utilize to complement our shockwave therapy treatments include:
- Chiropractic services
- Dry needling and acupuncture
- Soft tissue therapies, including Active Release Technique
- Functional medicine
- Foundational fitness
- Custom orthotics
- Enhanced athletic performance strategies
- Pregnancy and prenatal care
- Infant development
- Take-home, proactive care and guidance regarding many aspects unique to your lifestyle, including exercises, stretching, posture, lifting techniques, and movement patterns
- And more
Our expert team begins with a thorough assessment, precisely identifying your condition to craft an optimal healing strategy tailored just for you. We often integrate multiple treatments, maximizing effectiveness and efficiency to accelerate your recovery.
Our goal isn't just to heal your injury—it's to help you reclaim your strength, health, and confidence. Your life is waiting; we're here to ensure you're ready to live it to the fullest.
Don't let injuries hold you back any longer. Let's work together to get you back to doing what you love, stronger and more resilient than ever.
What Our Patients Are Saying
"The doctor's at Cornerstone Health provide comprehensive treatment for pain that goes above and beyond what I have experienced anywhere else. They really seek to get to the root of the problem and to determine interventions that will resolve the problem in full, not just mask the symptoms or provide temporary relief. Their knowledge of the body and understanding of it in a systemic way is extensive. They utilize both tried and true techniques (chiropractic adjustments, PT exercises etc) as well as, when appropriate, more recent technological advances such as shockwave therapy, to do things like address tissue damage and promote deep healing. I always feel that I am being well cared for when I am seeking their help. Dr. Fergus is a darling as well." - Liz R.
