03/24/2021
Where does pain come from? Here’s how I break it down for my patients
By Dr. Matt DiDuro
I like to keep things simple for my patients. When they ask me where pain comes from, I tell them it happens for three basic reasons:
1) Poor circulation
2) Inflammation
3) Tissue damage (This occurs when there’s osteoarthritis, sprain, strain, tear, strain, or other such wound.)
I’ve treated thousands of patients for all kinds of pain during my career, and one of the most effective methods I’ve found is SoftWave Tissue Regeneration. It’s helped Olympic and professional athletes and thousands of ordinary men and women in Europe and North America.
A common reaction I get from patients immediately after treatment with this device is: Wow! After a few more, brief non-invasive treatments, they tell me they’re astonished by the remarkable way it eases pain and speeds healing. Then they ask, how in the world does it work?
The best answer I can give is that it has an inverse function on all three of the above sources of pain.
Let’s discuss these one at a time.
1. Poor circulation.
Wherever you have pain, you have poor blood supply. If we are able to improve blood supply to an injured area, we can help decrease the pain.
There’s no question SoftWave Tissue Regeneration increases angiogenesis. Simply put, it improves blood flow. In doing so, it brings oxygen-dense blood to damaged tissue (connective, neuronal, endothelial), giving it time to repair, recover, and heal.
2. Inflammation.
Inflammation is a natural part of the healing process. But when the body doesn’t let up in its fight against toxins, there’s chronic inflammation. It can be extremely painful and damaging to the body. SoftWave Tissue Regeneration reduces chronic inflammation and gives the body time to recover and heal.
3. Tissue damage.
There’s a growing body of evidence that SoftWave Tissue Regeneration repairs damaged tissue. That’s the holy grail of healing. When Tissue Regeneration is used on animals and humans, we know it results in a positive biological effect.
A therapist uses a parabolic probe to focus electro-hydraulic produced super-sonic waves to injured parts of the body. The acoustic waves trick healthy cells into behaving as if a new injury has occurred. This triggers the body’s own natural healing response.
SoftWave Tissue Regeneration has a Class II clearance to activate connective tissue that helps repair the building matrix of biological tissue. These include: epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue.
There’s a lot we’re still learning about the body’s healing process. Here’s my hypothesis, based on new research and data from thousands of treatments: SoftWave Tissue Regeneration turns off the inflammatory process for seconds to minutes and maybe even a few hours. I believe this brief pause in chronic inflammation is significant and helps to explain the remarkable healing power of this technology.
Why do I believe this? Many people think the inflammatory process is normal. In my view, the opposite is true: it’s abnormal. In fact, I believe inflammation is humanity’s silent killer.
We’re learning more all the time about the connection between chronic inflammation and systemic disease. As we do so, it’s increasingly clear that healing begins when we put a stop to inflammation.
Dr. Matt DiDuro is Chief Medical Officer of SoftWave TRT and research director of Atlanta Pain Institute. SoftWave TRT is the distributor in North America of Orthogold 100 SoftWave Tissue Regeneration.