12850 - E•SWT 2 - Evoluted Shock Wave Therapy

E•SWT 2 represents today an innovative system that can give rise to a new and effective therapeutic approach for the treatment of various pathologies regarding soft tissues and the skeletal system.

E•SWT 2 is a system allowing you to perform an innovative methodology called extra-corporeal shock-waves therapy. E•SWT 2 is a versatile instrument, made for treating both soft (tendons and muscles) and hard tissues (bone).

The thrust implemented by the end side of a suitable applicator, that the operator has to put in contact with the suffering region, gives rise to small impulses with high intensity that are transmitted into the tissue. This originates a resonance phenomenon causing antalgic processes, reduction of local phlogosis, new formation of blood vessels, reactivation of reparative processes.

Although the unit E•SWT 2 and its application technique are a sort of derivation and adaptation of the shock wave therapy already used (particularly in urology for the treatment of the renal calculosis and then in orthopaedics for the treatment of pseudoarthrosis), it represents for the physical therapy a novelty because of the lower energies employed and the therapeutic modalities that can take place in an ambulatory allowing to avoid any anaesthesia or sedation and furthermore any radiographic and/or ultrasound visualisation and/or monitoring system.

All these features make the E•SWT 2 system a specific instrument for the treatment of pathologies into the Physical Therapy and Orthopaedics field. The antalgic, osteo-inductive and vascular effects allow the treatment of a wide range of tendinous pathologies, but also allow the activation of processes involving the re-absorption of calcifications, especially when they are localised in the smallest joints, and help to increase the reparative processes (osteogenesis) in osteo-articular pathologies and fractures.

A large color display, where all the information are shown, and a trackball make E•SWT 2 an extremely easy to use apparatus. The software that runs under Windows CE, in fact, gives the operator the opportunity of modulating widely the different available parameters. Besides the manual setting, the ESWT system has got a series of pre-set therapeutic protocols (whose values can be adjusted by the operator) and a memory for storing customized treatments.