Your active lifestyle is important to you — both physically and mentally — and you want to keep up with your fitness goals in the new year and beyond.
Unfortunately, like millions of others, pain in your foot or ankle has been derailing your efforts and you’re caught in that tricky catch-22 situation — you need to stay fit to support good health, but you can’t do that when your all-important feet are in pain.
At Aesthetic Podiatry & Sports Medicine Center, both Dr. Mariola Rivera and Dr. Lisa Shah are not just foot health experts — they’re also athletes themselves. As such, they understand the frustration that comes with nagging foot pain.
With that in mind, we’ve equipped our practice with the latest technologies for addressing foot, heel, and ankle pain, including shockwave therapy.
Let’s take a look at how shockwave therapy can help you, quite literally, move forward with less pain so you can keep up with your fitness goals.
Let’s first describe a few of the hurdles active people face when it comes to their lower limbs. In many cases, these issues stem from overuse and, more often than not, are the result of an active lifestyle. These issues include:
This list is by no means complete, but we wanted to give you an idea of the types of injuries that athletes face when it comes to their feet and ankles. What these injuries all have in common are two things: They can sideline you from activity, and shockwave therapy can promote healing.
Medicine these days is, rightfully, focusing on ways to heal the body from the inside, using your own powerful natural resources. The problem is that your body is on its own regenerative schedule, and it’s a schedule that requires a good deal of patience and rest — neither of which you have in abundant supply.
So our goal is to find ways to support and speed the healing process, which is exactly what shockwave therapy accomplishes.
Also called extracorporeal shockwave treatment, this innovative approach delivers sound waves into your damaged tissues, accomplishing many key goals, including:
As if these results aren’t enough, shockwave therapy is noninvasive, so we won’t be piling onto your foot or ankle injury with an invasive treatment that further sidelines you.
In most cases, patients benefit from a series of 4-6 shockwave treatments that we space apart by several days to allow time for your body to respond. As you progress through your treatments, you should realize gradual results, with optimal outcomes at about 10-15 weeks.
So, if you want your fitness to stay on track this year, it’s time to heal some of those injuries with shockwave therapy. To get started, we invite you to contact us online or by phone at one of our offices in Purchase or White Plains, New York, to schedule an appointment.
