Dr. Ryan Sieg, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Medical Director of Sonex Orthopedics sits down and talks with KXAN about High-energy Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy and how he recommends it a as the non-invasive alternative to surgery for numerous musculoskeletal injuries and arthritis. This segment focuses primarily on OsteoWave®, an arthritis treatment that provides long term relief, with no injections nor medications.
"[OsteoWave®] is approved by the FDA. It can give people lasting relief. It causes your body to stimulate healing, so your body heals itself. If you can heal yourself, you are not just treating the pain, you are treating the underlying cause, and that is what our aim is,” Dr. Sieg.
Transcript:
Dr. Sieg: “In general, when people have joint pain, they think osteoarthritis because the squishy stuff at the end of the bone, the cartilage, is worn away and they have bone on bone. The entire joint is like its own machine so the soft squishy cartilage at the end of the bone gets it nutrition from the bone itself and that is what the subchondral bone is. The subchondral bone is the bone underneath the joint, underneath the soft cartilage providing that nutrition for the cartilage itself. As it starts to break down, the whole process breaks down, the bone and the cartilage. Eventually it leads to pain and bone on bone arthritis.”
Host: “How can osteoarthritis be treated?”
Dr. Sieg: “In general people are going to refrain from activities that cause them pain such as high-impact activities for a while. They’ll take some antinflammatories, use a brace for treatment, ice, heat, some physical therapy with stretching and strengthening. The only surgery that really helps for true arthritis is a total joint replacement.
Host: “A total joint replacement is major surgery. What can High-energy Shockwave Therapy do, and specifically OsteoWave®, help people with osteoarthritis?”
Dr. Sieg: “OsteoWave® is a form of Shockwave Therapy. It is a non-invasive treatment before surgery. It is another option to help the patient. The shockwaves are treating that subchondral bone that we are talking about. They trick your body into thinking there is injury; it increases blood flow to that area and thus remodels and regenerates that bone. That bone can then support that soft cartilage at the end of the bone. What that does for the patient is that it decreases their pain, restores their function, and can give them lasting relief.”
Host: “The human body is an incredible thing and that you all are so brilliant in coming up with ways to help the body heal itself. Let’s talk a little bit more about High-energy Shockwave Therapy. How useful is it? Is there lasting relief that you can get with it? Does the FDA approve it? That sort of thing.”
Dr. Sieg: “It is approved by the FDA. It can give people lasting relief. It causes your body to stimulate healing, so your body heals itself. If you can heal yourself, you are not just treating the pain, you are treating the underlying cause, and that is what our aim is.”
What we do at Sonex Orthopedics is simple, we improve our client’s quality of life through the natural healing stimulated by Shockwave Therapy (SWT). Our High- and Low-energy Shockwave Therapy treatments heal numerous chronic overuse injuries such as tendonitis and plantar fasciitis and treats erectile dysfunction and osteoarthritis. FDA-approved since 2004 and with over 20 years of experience and 30 years of research, Shockwave Therapy is for you. It stimulates your body’s own regenerative healing processes to heal chronic overuse injuries and treats arthritis and erectile dysfunction. Shockwave Therapy:
- Recruits your body’s own stem cells and growth factors to the injured area (no-injections)
- Increases blood flow through vascular growth (angiogenesis)
- Breaks down scar tissue and calcifications (non-invasive)
Only Sonex Ortho utilizes fully FDA Approved devices, having passed the stringent FDA process to prove both safety and efficacy. With Sonex Ortho you know you are getting the best so let us help you get back to doing what you love.
Common chronic overuse injuries that we treat include: plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis, patellar tendonitis (jumpers knee), shoulder tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfers elbow, Osgood-Schlatter, partial tendon tears, greater trochanteric pain syndrome, meniscus tears, neuromas and stress/nonunion fractures. We also treat mild to severe osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, shoulder, ankle, CMC (thumb), and MTP (big toe) joints. Shockwave Therapy also treats erectile dysfunction (ED). Let us help you get back to doing what you love.
