Shock wave therapy is taking the world by storm, and for good reason - it’s a cutting-edge technology that’s non-invasive, backed by research, and has a multitude of applications. In today’s competitive healthcare landscape, offering an effective pain management solution that’s easy to use, has little down-time, and offers long-lasting relief is an advantage you, and certainly your patients, won’t want to miss out on.
Combining Shock Wave, EMTT, and Orthobiologics: Pain Management Expert Discovers the Key to Success
At Orion Pain, Dr. Denton Davenport, D.O., is dedicated to providing comprehensive and innovative pain management for his patients. From weekend warriors battling tennis elbow to retirees seeking relief from chronic knee pain, Dr. Davenport pulls from a variety of treatment options to help patients get back on track - orthobiologics, radiofrequency ablation (RFA), and nerve blocks, to name a few - but some of his most successful cases include shock wave therapy and Magnetotransduction.
The Need for Innovation
Prior to adding shock wave and Magnetotransduction to his armamentarium, Dr. Davenport successfully treated patients in a variety of ways. His methods ranged from injections and orthobiologics, to ablation and minimally invasive procedures, such as spinal cord stimulation (SCS), and lumbar decompression (MILD). While these methods proved to be effective at providing patient relief, Dr. Davenport recognized that these traditional approaches had their limits. In many cases, these methods only offered temporary pain reduction, their efficacy was limited, and they sometimes carried risks or potential side effects.
In 2022, Dr. Davenport first introduced Extracorporeal Pulse Activation Technology (EPAT®), (also referred to as radial shock wave or radial pressure wave). Recognizing its potential, he added Extracorporeal Shockwave Technology (ESWT) also known as focused shockwave, and Magnetotransduction (EMTT®) a year later. With the addition of EMTT, Dr. Davenport describes it as a Swiss Army Knife - a versatile tool that enhances the effectiveness of ESWT and EPAT. On its own, of course, it’s a worthy tool, but as Dr. Davenport explains, EMTT is “like the sprinkles on an ice cream cone. It makes it better.”
Integrating ESWT, EPAT, and EMTT Into Your Continuum of Care
Shock wave - while it’s revolutionizing the standard of pain management across the globe - is still a 
relatively new technology in the musculoskeletal space, and is primarily offered as a cash-pay modality. As such, it can be challenging to introduce it to patients in a manner that will encourage them to move forward with it.
Dr. Davenport values having informed patients above all else. From the first consultation, he lays out all viable treatment options - including EPAT, ESWT and EMTT - and emphasizes what success might look like with or without the use of these technologies. It’s true that solutions are possible without these tools, but as Dr. Davenport explains, he has more success when he uses them. Patients often find long-term or even permanent relief when treated with shock wave and/or EMTT, versus temporary relief with other methods.
While shock wave is recognized as a highly effective solution for simple pathologies like knee pain or tennis elbow, it’s also a game-changer for those hard-to-treat cases. In other words, the head scratchers, or complex pathologies where nothing else seems to work. Take one of Dr. Davenport’s current cases, for example: a dog-bite victim with an immobile scar, a mangled gastrocnemius, and purple, blotchy skin. The patient in this case had previously tried laser therapy with minimal relief, and Dr. Davenport offered her a potential solution of EMTT and EPAT. After only a handful of sessions, they are already noticing a marked improvement in mobility, and a reduction in discoloration.
Orthobiologics and Shockwave Technology - A Dynamic Duo
Shock wave and EMTT provide outstanding results on their own, and Dr. Davenport and thousands of others can attest to this, but he believes practitioners can take outstanding patient outcomes a step further by adding orthobiologics to their regimen. Dr. Davenport primarily uses shockwave and EMTT as combination therapies, mixing them with the use of stem cells, PRP, and other orthobiologics. When combined, longer-lasting, more successful outcomes are achieved as opposed to using either on its own.
For Dr. Davenport, success is defined by how many patients he can heal completely, so they exit his office happy and healthy. By adding shock wave and EMTT to his armamentarium, and combining them with orthobiologics, Dr. Davenport is able to help patients get better faster, stating, “My goal is to get them better, so they don’t have to come back.” After all, who wants to be treated repeatedly, year after year, for the same issue?
Resources for Success
If you’re on the fence about incorporating shock wave into your continuum of care, Dr. Davenport has
some advice: make sure you have a plan. If your practice is not accustomed to offering cash-pay modalities, make this your first priority before trying to incorporate shock wave and/or EMTT. Create a program, design protocols, and restructure your marketing to make cash-pay modalities the focus of your operations. Educate yourself and your staff on all things shockwave, and all things cash-pay modalities. When patients come to you with questions, you need to have the answers - otherwise, you might miss out on potential clients right from the beginning.
Success looks different for everyone. A non-negotiable? Having a strong team behind you to help support you in your endeavors. It’s why Dr. Davenport chose to work with CuraMedix when investing in these technologies, and it’s why he continues to look to CuraMedix for unrivaled service, support, and ongoing education.
As the leading U.S. distributor of STORZ Medical equipment, CuraMedix is the top contender for providing medical professionals with emerging regenerative technologies in medicine. As the pain management industry evolves, more practitioners like Dr. Davenport are using shock wave, Magnetotransduction, and orthobiologics to treat dozens of pathologies.
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