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SoftWave TRT is a non-invasive treatment that uses gentle but powerful acoustic waves to stimulate the body’s natural healing response. Instead of simply covering up pain, SoftWave is designed to help address injured or irritated tissue and encourage the body to repair itself.

SoftWave therapy does not involve needles, injections, medication, or surgery.

How Does SoftWave Work?

During treatment, a handheld applicator is placed over the injured or painful area. The device sends acoustic waves through the skin and into the tissues below.

These waves create a biological response within the treated area that can help increase local blood flow, activate connective tissue, and stimulate cellular processes involved in healing and tissue repair. SoftWave is FDA cleared for uses that include temporary pain relief, temporarily increasing local blood circulation, and activation of connective tissue.

Think of SoftWave as giving the injured area a gentle “wake-up call.” When an injury or painful condition has been present for a long time, the normal healing process may have slowed down. The acoustic waves help stimulate activity within the tissues and encourage the body’s own repair processes.

SoftWave is commonly used as part of treatment for painful muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues.

Depending on the individual patient, it may be helpful for problems involving areas such as:

1. Knees
2. Shoulders and rotator cuff
3. Elbows and tennis elbow
4. Hips
5. Achilles tendon
6. Feet and plantar fascia
7. Back and neck
8. Muscle and tendon injuries
9. Overuse and sports injuries
10. Chronic areas of pain or tenderness

Shockwave therapy has been studied extensively for a variety of musculoskeletal and soft-tissue conditions, particularly tendon-related problems.

How Can SoftWave Help With Healing?

SoftWave is different from treatments that simply numb an area or temporarily mask symptoms. The goal is to create an environment that supports the body's own healing response.

SoftWave treatment may help:

1. Increase blood flow to the treated area
2. Stimulate cellular activity involved in tissue repair
3. Activate connective tissue
4. Support the body's natural healing response
5. Reduce pain and tenderness
6. Improve movement and function
7. Help patients return to normal activities with less discomfort

The acoustic waves produced by SoftWave can trigger biological responses associated with circulation, inflammation regulation, and tissue repair.

At Multicare Health Clinic, we use the LightForce XLi Class IV Laser as a noninvasive treatment option to help reduce pain, calm inflammation, improve circulation, and support the body’s natural tissue healing process.

Class IV laser therapy uses concentrated light energy that penetrates into muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues. This light energy is absorbed by cells and can help stimulate cellular activity involved in healing and recovery.

Laser therapy may be used by itself or as part of a broader treatment plan that includes chiropractic care, physical therapy, rehabilitation, or other services available at Multicare Health Clinic.

How Deep Does Therapeutic Light Penetrate?

Different wavelengths of therapeutic light are absorbed by the body in different ways. In general, visible red light is used for more superficial tissues, while near infrared wavelengths can penetrate farther beneath the skin and reach deeper structures such as muscles, tendons, and joints.

The amount of energy that ultimately reaches a target tissue also depends on more than wavelength alone. Factors such as the power of the device, treatment time, skin and tissue characteristics, and the depth of the injured area all play a role.

Class IV laser therapy is designed to deliver higher levels of therapeutic light energy than lower powered light devices. This makes it especially useful when treating deeper musculoskeletal tissues where the goal is to deliver an effective dose of light energy below the surface.

What Does Laser Therapy Feel Like?

Class IV Laser Therapy is noninvasive and does not require needles or injections.

Most patients experience a comfortable warming sensation as the laser is moved across the treatment area. Treatment sessions are typically brief, although treatment time varies depending on the size and location of the area being treated.

Patients can usually return to normal daily activities immediately afterward.

The LightForce XLi allows our providers to deliver high powered therapeutic laser energy to deeper tissues while adjusting treatment settings based on the condition and area being treated.

At Multicare Health Clinic, laser therapy is often used as one part of a more comprehensive approach. Depending on your condition, your treatment plan may also include:

• Chiropractic care

• Physical therapy

• Therapeutic exercise

• Injury rehabilitation

• SoftWave TRT

• Spinal decompression

• Manual therapy

• Other supportive treatments

Our goal is not simply to treat where it hurts, but to determine what may be contributing to the problem and develop an appropriate plan to help you move and feel better.

Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field therapy directs powerful, pulsed energy waves into damaged or injured tissues.

The pulses at low frequencies pass through the skin and penetrate deeply into muscle, bones, tendons, and nerves. Admittedly, these pulses also increase the cell’s energy, and stimulates its natural repair mechanisms.

These painless waves quickly pass through the cells in the damaged region, and increases the spin of the electrons contained within them. This increase in cellular energy helps to heal damaged tissues, relieve pain, and stimulate cell growth.

At Multicare Health Clinic, Infrared Light Therapy is a noninvasive treatment option that uses specific wavelengths of light to support circulation, reduce discomfort, and promote the body’s natural healing processes.

Infrared light is part of the light spectrum that is invisible to the human eye. Unlike visible red light, infrared wavelengths can penetrate farther beneath the surface of the skin, allowing light energy to reach deeper tissues such as muscles, joints, nerves, tendons, and surrounding soft tissues.

Infrared Light Therapy may be used by itself or as part of a broader treatment plan that includes chiropractic care, physical therapy, rehabilitation, Class IV Laser Therapy, SoftWave TRT, or other services available at Multicare Health Clinic.

How Does Infrared Light Therapy Work?

Infrared Light Therapy works through a process called photobiomodulation.When specific wavelengths of light are absorbed by cells, they can influence cellular activity involved in energy production, circulation, inflammation, and tissue repair.Rather than creating a strong heating effect, therapeutic infrared light is designed to stimulate biological activity within the tissues.

The Juvent Micro-Impact Platform has been shown to promote bone health, speed recovery, relieve pain, and enhance your strength. Good skeletal health is so important to living an independent and quality life. Juvent’s Platform can help to maintain yours. Easy and effective, Juvent is an effective solution that promotes musculoskeletal health, joint pain relief, and improved balance.

When you stand on the Juvent (about the size and shape of a large bathroom scale), you’ll feel a subtle, pleasant stimulation. Starting at your feet and legs, it extends upward through your torso, arms, and upper body. Using our platform just 10 to 20 minutes, three days a week has been shown to help improve blood flow, ease joint, knee and back pain and increase stability.

If you don’t use your muscles, they begin to atrophy, growing weaker and less effective. Your bones work the same way: without exercising the muscles surrounding them, they can become brittle and thin. Juvent’s low-magnitude mechanical impulses passively exercise your bones and muscles, increasing blood flow, relieving pain, and helping increase strength. The video to the left will help you get a better idea of just how amazing Juvent’s technology really is.

At Multicare Health Clinic, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, commonly called HBOT, is a noninvasive therapy that uses increased atmospheric pressure and oxygen to increase the amount of oxygen available to the body’s tissues.

Oxygen plays an important role in cellular energy production, circulation, tissue repair, and recovery. By increasing the amount of oxygen carried in the blood and dissolved in the plasma, hyperbaric therapy can increase oxygen delivery to tissues throughout the body.

Hyperbaric therapy may be incorporated as a supportive part of an individualized treatment or recovery program when appropriate.

During hyperbaric therapy, the patient relaxes inside a specially designed chamber in which the atmospheric pressure is increased above normal room pressure.

Under increased pressure, the body is able to carry more dissolved oxygen in the bloodstream. This additional oxygen can reach tissues throughout the body and may support biological processes involved in healing and recovery.

Increased tissue oxygen availability may help support:

• Cellular energy production

• Circulation and oxygen delivery

• Tissue repair and recovery

• Formation of new blood vessels

• The body’s response to inflammation

• Recovery following certain injuries or procedures

At Multicare Health Clinic in Sioux City, Radial Pulse Wave Therapy is a noninvasive treatment used to help reduce pain, improve mobility, and stimulate the body’s natural healing response in muscles, tendons, fascia, and other soft tissues.

Radial pulse waves are mechanical pressure waves that are delivered through a handheld applicator placed against the skin. These pulses spread outward through the treatment area and may help increase local circulation, decrease muscle and soft tissue tension, and stimulate biological processes involved in tissue repair.

Radial Pulse Wave Therapy may be used by itself or as part of a more comprehensive treatment plan that includes chiropractic care, physical therapy, rehabilitation, SoftWave TRT, Class IV Laser Therapy, or other services available at Multicare Health Clinic.