Extracorporeal shock wave treatment for chronic pain is an established procedure with excellent success rates in a variety of indications. The question, how it works, concerns STORZ MEDICAL and many users of shock wave therapy for years.

A recently published theory shines some light on neural processes involved in pain memory. According to the new theory shock waves selectively delete “pathologic reflex patterns” and enable re-learning of “hale reflex pattern”, being the basis of permanent healing. Read more in a lately published paper in the professional journal Urological Research:  A neural model for chronic pain and pain relief by extracorporeal shock wave treatment