Focused and radial shockwave for tendinopathies, plantar fasciitis, and stubborn chronic pain that has not responded to standard rehab. Typical course is three to six sessions over a few weeks, paired with loaded exercise.
A handheld device delivers acoustic pressure waves into damaged tissue. The mechanical stimulus triggers a local healing response that standard rehab alone often cannot reach. Evidence based for tendons and fascia that have become chronic.
We use shockwave specifically for tissues that are stuck, most often the plantar fascia, patellar tendon, Achilles, gluteal tendons, and elbow tendons. Always paired with progressive loading. The combination is what works.
Stubborn plantar fasciitis that has not responded to stretching, rest, or injections often clears with shockwave plus loading.
Read the guide CommonLateral and medial epicondylitis. Three to five sessions of shockwave plus eccentric loading is the standard protocol.
Read the guide MoreLower body tendinopathies across the board. Evidence based for chronic cases that have failed conservative care.
See allA course, not a single visit. The evidence is built on three to five sessions about a week apart. One visit is a tolerance test, not a treatment.
Shockwave is priced as a package because that is how it works. The evidence for extracorporeal shockwave therapy is built on courses of three to five sessions spaced about a week apart, not on one treatment. A single session tells you whether you tolerate it. It does not tell you whether it worked. If someone sells you one shockwave session and calls it treatment, you have bought a test, not a course.
The strongest evidence is in stubborn tendon problems that have already failed a few months of loading: plantar fasciitis and heel pain, Achilles tendinopathy, patellar tendinopathy, gluteal tendinopathy at the outside of the hip, and lateral elbow pain. The common thread is a tendon that has stopped remodelling on its own. Shockwave delivers mechanical energy into the tissue to restart that process, which is a genuinely different mechanism from making something feel better for an afternoon.
Two honest caveats. First, shockwave is a second line option. It earns its place after a real loading programme has been tried and has stalled, not instead of one, and the research reflects that: it is studied in chronic cases, typically three months or longer. If your heel has hurt for two weeks, you do not need shockwave, you need a loading plan and some patience. Second, it works alongside that loading programme, not in place of it. Every course here is paired with exercise, because the sessions restart the tissue's response and the loading is what directs it.
Firm, percussive, and uncomfortable at the spot that is already sore, for roughly five minutes. Most patients describe it as very tolerable once they know what is coming, and intensity is dialled to what you can handle rather than to a fixed setting. Some soreness for a day afterwards is normal and is not a sign anything went wrong. Skip it if you are pregnant, on anticoagulants, have a bleeding disorder, have an active infection or a tumour in the area, or have an open growth plate at the treatment site. We check all of that first.
Cash rates for every service are published on the insurance and cash pay page. Insurance coverage for shockwave is inconsistent between carriers, so we verify your benefits before the first session rather than after.
The cash rate is $125 per session, or four sessions for $400, which works out to $100 each. Shockwave is priced as a course because that is how it is studied: three to five sessions about a week apart. One session is a tolerance test, not a treatment.
Usually three to five, spaced about a week apart, alongside a loading programme. If a full course has not changed anything, we say so rather than sell you a second course.
It is firm and percussive at the spot that is already sore, for roughly five minutes. Intensity is dialled to what you can tolerate. Some soreness the next day is normal and is not a sign anything went wrong.
No. It is a second line option that earns its place after a real loading programme has been tried and stalled, typically in cases that have been going three months or longer. If your heel has hurt for two weeks you need a loading plan, not shockwave.
Shockwave is powerful for the right patient. We screen first so you do not spend money on something that will not work.