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Recovery Services in The Atlanta Area
We use innovative technologies and emerging treatment methods to improve injured soft tissue and restoration of your body. Of course, our recovery services provide nutrition support. But we enhance that support with easy-to-understand DNA genetic testing to tailor your nutrition protocol for your optimal recovery. Our recovery services provide the balance you need to achieve internal wellbeing.
Dr. Curby and her team of experts provide some of the industry’s most advanced and effective wellness treatments in addition to recovery. If you want to optimize your life and promote a more enhanced feeling of vitality, Wellife Center offers a variety of options. Contact the center to schedule your initial consultation to learn more about our comprehensive services. Discover how our wellness programs can nurture your body and mind from within.
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Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT)
Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is a non-invasive treatment that involves the delivery of shock waves to injured soft tissue to reduce pain and promote healing. According to Jonathan T. Finnoff, D.O, medical director for Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic Square in Minneapolis, ESWT is a viable option to consider for many patients who present with chronic tendinopathy that hasn’t responded to more-conservative treatments. Often difficult to treat, chronic tendinopathy is characterized by localized pain and pathological changes to a tendon. The condition affects athletes and nonathletes alike.
BENEFITS
Dr. Finnoff notes that this approach fills a need for athletes whose injuries are not responding to first-line treatments, such as rest, ice, therapeutic exercise, bracing, and orthotics, but who are not yet ready to consider more-invasive or surgical options.
“Say we are treating a basketball player in the middle of the season who is experiencing jumper’s knee that is inhibiting his or her ability to practice or play,” explains Dr. Finnoff. “ESWT might be the next option for that athlete after we have tried all of the standard nonoperative treatments. Normally, when athletes have failed treatment, we have to tell them that they can’t play or that they need to consider more-invasive treatments such as a needle tenotomy, experimental regenerative medicine treatment, or surgical debridement, all of which are associated with higher costs, increased risk and longer recovery periods. While often successful, all of those more-invasive therapies require time off and can effectively end an athlete’s season. ESWT thus provides athletes with a really nice intermediate option that, if successful, isn’t season-ending.”
Who is a candidate for ESWT?
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of ESWT for the treatment of plantar fasciopathy. However, Dr. Finnoff notes that multiple high-quality randomized clinical trials have provided substantial evidence that ESWT is a safe and effective non-invasive option for treating tendinopathy throughout the musculoskeletal system.
Dr. Finnoff and his Mayo Clinic colleagues are currently using ESWT to treat chronic, recalcitrant tendinopathy throughout the body. Mayo sports medicine specialists have found this therapy beneficial for treating the following areas of tendinopathy:
- Rotator cuff
- Lateral epicondyle
- Medial epicondyle
- Greater trochanter (gluteus medius and minimus)
- Proximal hamstring origin
- Rectus femoris
- Distal quadricep
- Patellar tendon
- Posterior tibial
- Peroneal
- Achilles
- Plantar fascia
- Rotator cuff
- Lateral epicondyle
- Medial epicondyle
- Greater trochanter (gluteus medius and minimus)
- Proximal hamstring origin
- Rectus femoris
- Distal quadricep
- Patellar tendon
- Posterior tibial
- Peroneal
- Achilles
- Plantar fascia
Red Light Therapy
Red Light Therapy for Pain
Relax in the warm red glow of this light bed full-body treatment. The device emits light energy that reduces pain and increases local blood circulation. This increased circulation accelerates your body’s recovery process and relieves minor muscle and joint pain and stiffness, minor arthritic pain, and relaxes muscles.
RED LIGHT THERAPY FOR RECOVERY
This soothing red light therapy promotes overall wellness by encouraging your body’s inherently restorative processes. Recover faster after intense workouts or sports activities. This is an ideal treatment for recovery after any invasive procedure like face lift, liposuction, abdominoplasty, joint injections, knee surgery, rotator cuff surgery and much more.
RED LIGHT THERAPY FOR SKIN
We also use red light therapy to nourish your skin from within so your complexion can glow on your entire body. Red light therapy provides rejuvenating wavelengths of light energy to treat fine lines and wrinkles. This light therapy helps soothe and calm the skin post acne treatments. Maintain your skin’s youthful appearance. Nourish your skin from within. Overtime by using red light therapy you can help to recapture a plump, youthful appearance. Give yourself the beautiful skin you deserve.
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