"Exploring the Benefits of Shockwave Therapy for Healthy Athletes: How Does it Affect Muscle Tissue?"
Researchers looked into what happens to elite athletes that dont have current muscle dysfunction to see what happens when we use shockwave therapy
The athletes underwent three sessions of therapy administered every five days to the thigh muscles
So what happened to their muscles?
an increase in muscle elasticity
increase in muscle tone
increase in muscular recruitment
How did the shockwave therapy achieve this?
Researchers beleive that there is a biological effect on connective tissue which means
increase in blood flow
oxygenation
metabolic pprocess activation
and a proliferative effect ( an important event in vascular lesion formation.
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Reference
J Biol Regul Homeost Agents
. 2018 Jan-Feb;32(1):185-193.
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy on muscle tissue: the effects on healthy athletes
A Notarnicola 1 2, I Covelli 1 2, G Maccagnano 1 2, R Marvulli 3, L Mastromauro 4, G Ianieri 3, S Boodhoo 3, A Turitto 3, L Petruzzella 2, G Farì 1 2 3, F P Bianchi 5, S Tafuri 5, B Moretti 1 2