There is a lot of discussion about why StemWave is referred to as the “stem cell machine”. StemWave and SoftWave are amazing technological advancements that been allowed for use by the FDA for pain and inflammation reduction and more. However, do the electrohydraulic shockwaves produced by StemWave and SoftWave influence stem cell function to aid in regenerating tissue? It’s not enough to simply say it does. As doctors, we owe it to our patients to understand and educate how to best understand how this technology works. Continue Reading →
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Jan 2024
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Jan 2024
Regenerative Medicine Step 3: StemWave and SoftWave ESWT (Part 2 of 2)
Cliff Notes for Both ESWT Blogs before we go forward:
1. StemWave and SoftWave offer electrohydraulic ESWT that is proven to be beneficial for a multitude of conditions
2. The science behind Electrohydraulic Shockwave Therapy is fascinating and has significant advantages over other forms of acoustic and pressure wave therapies
3. StemWave and SoftWave regenerate tissues like nothing ever demonstrated before
4. StemWave and SoftWave are unique and worth a try before more invasive intervention (ex. surgery)
**Please note that you do NOT need to be an active patient to benefit from StemWave and Softwave. You can simply make an appointment. This also applies to Hbot and NormaTec.
As we learned from Part 1, electrohydraulic shockwave therapy is an amazing technology. Although no one treatment intervention can fix every problem, StemWave and SoftWave most certainly addresses conditions that no other intervention can help. The excitement over shockwave therapy is palpable. It’s real. The research pool continues to grow and more and more treatment applications are being discovered as time goes on.
Integrative medical doctors and manual medicine doctors should move into ways to help patients regenerate muscles, ligaments, cartilage, and nerves. It’s THAT important. It’s also important to be aware of what the international shockwave community is saying about extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT). Is this all a farce or is it legitimate? Continue Reading →
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Jan 2024
Regenerative Medicine Step 3: StemWave and SoftWave (Part 1 of 2)
This is a two part blog and in the first part, we’ll discuss how true shockwave therapy works. The second blog will discuss what we use it for and why true shockwave therapy is known to recruit stem cells to facilitate healing. The first blog will be more technical than the second.
Please note that you do NOT need to be a patient to benefit from the StemWave or SoftWave. You can simply make an appointment for shockwave therapy. This also applies to Hbot and NormaTec.
In our previous two blogs, we discussed how hyperbaric oxygen therapy (Hbot) and NormaTec help with recovery and healing. The evidence that Hbot can elongate telomeres, leading to greater cell function and a true anti-aging effect, is nothing less than amazing. These above two referenced interventions constitute the first two prongs regarding how we go about tissue regeneration. Now it’s time to introduce the third prong of this approach.
Before we proceed, we don’t want to anyone to misunderstand. Healing and recovery are a very important focus for us at Columbia Advanced Chiropractic, LLC. Dr. Manison has spent over 2 decades learning and applying the best techniques in the field of manual medicine and rehabilitation. He does so in order to best help his patients obtain the greatest likelihood of recovery from a plethora of neuromusculoskeletal conditions. However, aiding with recovery and healing are different from actual tissue regeneration, and this is the future of medicine. Continue Reading →
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Aug 2022
SoftWaves for Plantar Fasciitis Work!
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is cleared by the FDA for use on a few conditions, one being plantar fasciitis. This is very exciting as plantar fasciitis is the most common form of heel pain and it can be quite debilitating condition. Podiatrist, orthopedists, PTs, and sports chiropractors all work with patients who suffer from plantar fasciitis, and we are always looking for more and better ways to help these patients. When a proper diagnosis is made (and this means being quite sure to R/O calcaneal stress reaction), the faster we can address a problem and the faster we can fix it. Continue Reading →
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Mar 2022
Making Sense of Tissue Regeneration
The previous blogs have discussed our three-pronged approach to tissue regeneration. Whether you wish to recover faster and more successfully from surgery, have a fresh or chronic injury, or any other concern that needs regenerative therapy, this blog helps to explain the “how and why” behind these services. You do NOT need to be an active chiropractic patient to benefit from these services. Please call the office to start your path towards a speedy recovery and better overall health with any/all of the services we provide to help you.
1. Hyper-oxygenated blood
Nothing matches the systemic healing effects of pressure and oxygen. Hbot is unique and amazing, especially when coupled with 94% oxygen, at mouth.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Hbot) is a really unique approach. If you haven’t tried it, you should. Hbot is amazing for several reasons. In our office, we tend to use it most for musculoskeletal injury recovery (including faster surgical recovery), concussion recovery, and anti-inflammatory effects (people with conditions like Lyme really benefit from Hbot). It’s also highly effective for helping to prevent/reduce altitude sickness. It also offers so much more. For example, as was discussed in the last blog about Hbot, it has been shown to elongate telomeres, thus extending lifespan and aiding in tissue regeneration. So, we have many positive effects from Hbot. With our three-pronged approach to tissue regeneration, what we most want to derive from Hbot is the cellular oxygenation effect that dramatically improves a lot of
healing processes. Continue Reading →
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Oct 2021
Regenerative Medicine Step 2: NormaTec
Please note that you do NOT need to be a patient to benefit from NormaTec. You can simply call and set up an appointment to experience the benefits of NormaTec. This also applies to Hbot and SoftWave.
NormaTec has been used to aid athletes recovery from training, injury, and surgery for over 10 years. This amazing tool uses pressure to pump both lymph and blood supply. By doing so, you increase blood flow and the nutrients it carries (especially oxygen) through not only the specific area of treatment but also through the whole body and this allows for an increased rate of healing.
At Columbia Advanced Chiropractic, LLC, we utilize the NormaTec 2.0 Pro. This version is their top offering and it allows for specific programming to isolate areas that need the increased circulation the most. We use NormaTec as our second step in our 3-pronged approach to tissue regeneration. Why is it used second? First, we hyper-oxygenate the blood with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (Hbot), then we use the NormaTec to hyper-vascularize the area of need. Third, we use the unique SoftWave unfocused extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) unit to stimulate stem cells to regenerate damaged tissue. The three-pronged approach is a potent combination of therapies aimed at helping you recover, and heal, in dramatic fashion. NormaTec will deliver fantastic recovery results when used individually from Hbot and SoftWave, but pairing it with these other therapies will provide for the best means of true tissue regeneration. Continue Reading →
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Oct 2021
Regenerative Medicine Step 1: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Please note that you do NOT need to be a patient to benefit from Hbot. You can simply call and set up an appointment to experience the benefits of Hbot. This also applies to NormaTec and SoftWave.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or Hbot, is healthy for us in many ways. We usually consider the greatest effects to be for those who have inflammation/swelling following trauma or for those wish to use it for a recovery tool after strenuous exercise. It is also used to aid those who get altitude sickness as enriching the blood with oxygen helps to reduce the effects of reduced oxygen at high elevations.
A new study, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells : a prospective trial , published by Hacho, et. al. in 2020, has shown that Hbot goes further than common uses in that it actually has direct, anti-aging, and regenerative effects. These effects are due to its ability to elongate telomeres.
Telomeres are nucleotides that are found at the end of chromosomes. They serve to maintain DNA stability. Telomeres shorten during replication (mitosis) as well as due to disease processes, lack of physical activity, obesity, cortical thinning of the brain, diabetes, stress, smoking, inflammation, vitamin deficiency, and oxidative stress (think free radicals). Being most of us are not functioning at optimal health, it’s easy to see that our telomeres tend to shorten far faster than they should and this process leads to an earlier death. Telomeres are measured in kilobases, and they tend to be 4-15 kilobases in length. We lose 20-40 bases per year just due to aging. However, the aforementioned conditions drastically decay the telomere length. When telomeres reach a ‘critical length’, cell replication cannot occur and this leads to further cell death. Studies have shown that adults with shorter telomere lengths have increased mortality rates. Simply put: the faster your telomeres shorten, the sooner your death. Continue Reading →
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