Finally, there's effective treatment for your chronic heel pain without open surgery or lengthy therapy sessions.

Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is restoring patients with chronic heel pain syndrome (Plantar Fasciitis) to a normal, active lifestyle with a single treatment.  Additional treatment indications are currently being researched.  A non-invasive procedure similar to lithotripsy used in the treatment of kidney stone, ESWT uses therapeutic pressure waves to relieve the pain and inflammation in the affected area.  Patients may leave the treatment center shortly after the procedure is complete.

With the FDA's approval of ESWT in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Americans can now use this effective technology that has been used internationally for a decade to treat a variety of chronic musculoskeletal conditions.

What Is ESWT?

Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy, or ESWT, treats chronic heel pain syndrome (Plantar Fasciitis) and other tendonitis conditions.  It is a non-invasive procedure in which therapeutic pressure waves are directed at the area of pain.  In the case of chronic heel pain, energy is transmitted through electro-magnetic shockwaves and are directed at the plantar fascia, the tendon running along the bottom of the foot.

The shockwaves stimulate a healing response in the affected tissue.  The result is a reduction in inflammation and pain from the affected tendon.

Patients experience a short recovery period, often with few or no side effects.  Most patients experience relief from the pain right away, but in others, the full results from a single treatment may be experienced in one to three months.  Results typically last forever.

The technology has been used successfully to treat hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide with a variety of tendonitis conditions.