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Shock wave therapy
Shock wave therapy
by Ron Hill » Sun May 20, 2018 8:51 am
I’ve been undergoing shock wave therapy for arthritis with a private chiropractor. However it’s very expensive treatment but does seem to be resulting in improvement.
I’m told by someone the other day that you can get a GP referral and have the shock wave therapy treatment at Torre hospital. Can anyone enlighten me further please?
I’m told by someone the other day that you can get a GP referral and have the shock wave therapy treatment at Torre hospital. Can anyone enlighten me further please?
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by Drama Queen » Sun May 20, 2018 6:33 pm
If that's the man in Benijofar - he's a charlatan. I can't find that he has any qualifications, and after one session with him I couldn't walk for 2 weeks. Any physio will help you - and I recommend Mejorate in Los Montesinos - the very last road on the right as you go through the town towards San Miguel. They speak English and charge 20 euros per three quarters of an hour session.
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by Ron Hill » Mon May 21, 2018 6:36 am
Yes it’s the guy in Benijofar. He has had some success as I walk much easier after a few sessions. He was recommended by my neighbor who has been going to him for over a year. But he is very expensive if I have shockwave and laser treatment it costs about 75€ a session!! Hence I need to find something else.
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by Rita Mooney » Mon May 21, 2018 7:28 am
He is not a charlatan but a highly experienced and qualified chiropractor and laser specialist who spent seven years in University in the USA qualifying. He has practiced in Denmark and the U.K. As well as Spain. His certificates of qualification are on the wall in his clinic in Benijofer.
A few years ago, my husband fell from a roof and broke his neck. He could have died, or become paralyzed, but after seeing the x-ray, this doctor repaired the break with his laser. We saw the before and after x-rays.
My stepson had a rugby accident, damaged his spine and for four years had to have 24 hr nursing care. After a not very successful operation in the UK he managed to walk with two sticks. I took him to see him and in less than five minutes, after laser treatment, he could feel his limbs again and walked out of the clinic unaided. He then swam two lengths of our pool! Other patients in the clinic were amazed and to this day, some stop me in the street and comment about it.
Yes...he is expensive, but the replacement laser heads are also expensive and have to be changed regularly. Is it better to spend 30 euros a session with a physiotherapist over a longer period, or more money to get better more quickly? There will always be cases where people say it doesn't work, but these same people may not have completed a course of treatment. It cured my spondylitis in my neck which UK doctors told me to "live" with as there was no cure!
I had an arthritic spur in my knee and couldn't kneel, but one short shockwave treatment broke the spur up and totally cured the problem, saving me the pain of an operation.
I think that people with health insurance can use this for treatment.
A few years ago, my husband fell from a roof and broke his neck. He could have died, or become paralyzed, but after seeing the x-ray, this doctor repaired the break with his laser. We saw the before and after x-rays.
My stepson had a rugby accident, damaged his spine and for four years had to have 24 hr nursing care. After a not very successful operation in the UK he managed to walk with two sticks. I took him to see him and in less than five minutes, after laser treatment, he could feel his limbs again and walked out of the clinic unaided. He then swam two lengths of our pool! Other patients in the clinic were amazed and to this day, some stop me in the street and comment about it.
Yes...he is expensive, but the replacement laser heads are also expensive and have to be changed regularly. Is it better to spend 30 euros a session with a physiotherapist over a longer period, or more money to get better more quickly? There will always be cases where people say it doesn't work, but these same people may not have completed a course of treatment. It cured my spondylitis in my neck which UK doctors told me to "live" with as there was no cure!
I had an arthritic spur in my knee and couldn't kneel, but one short shockwave treatment broke the spur up and totally cured the problem, saving me the pain of an operation.
I think that people with health insurance can use this for treatment.
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by DTR » Mon May 21, 2018 8:37 am
Drama Queen wrote:If that's the man in Benijofar - he's a charlatan. I can't find that he has any qualifications, and after one session with him I couldn't walk for 2 weeks. Any physio will help you - and I recommend Mejorate in Los Montesinos - the very last road on the right as you go through the town towards San Miguel. They speak English and charge 20 euros per three quarters of an hour session.
Me too, I went to Benijofar for a nerve issue and the only thing on his mind was trying to sell me courses of very expensive treatment. When I suggested a traditional treatment he replied with 'Oh you want it the old fashioned way?' Then he inflicted a truck load of pain on me and almost crippled me for a week.
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by Ron Hill » Tue May 22, 2018 6:59 am
Rita Moonie....were your husbands x rays done elsewhere? I ask because he told me he is not allowed to take x rays. I am happy with the treatment he is giving me but 75€ for less than 1 hour is cost prohibitive for me!!
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Re: Shock wave therapy
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Re: Shock wave therapy
by lindylou23 » Tue May 22, 2018 3:34 pm
Be careful of this Dr. He used to send his patients to another location for X rays, which I went and got done, went back to him for "treatment" thinking he was knowledgeable enough to read the x rays and the therapy he was giving me at 75€ a time twice a week (he suggested three times a week), would be suitable for my problem.
Unfortunately he totally misread my situation I had spinal nerve compression with no feeling down right side, he proceeded to use the shockwave (quite violent) therapy, this resulted in chronic agonising pain in my neck and shoulder, which resulted in being told by a Neurosurgeon at Elche Hospital that even stepping of a kerb could have resulted in irreversible paralysis, as a spur of bone was penetrating the spinal cord.
Discs removed, first operation, titaniun plate second operation, through diagnosis by Doctors that know what they are looking for / at.
Now before everybody jumps on here to tell me how marvellous he is, I am not disputing that his therapies don't work for straightforward arthritis, as it makes sense to break the crystals down and for the body to eliminate them, but for gods sake if you have anything other than arthritis, please please be very careful before you embark on this treatment.
Thankfully I am not writing this from a wheelchair, but it could have so easily been a different story.
Unfortunately he totally misread my situation I had spinal nerve compression with no feeling down right side, he proceeded to use the shockwave (quite violent) therapy, this resulted in chronic agonising pain in my neck and shoulder, which resulted in being told by a Neurosurgeon at Elche Hospital that even stepping of a kerb could have resulted in irreversible paralysis, as a spur of bone was penetrating the spinal cord.
Discs removed, first operation, titaniun plate second operation, through diagnosis by Doctors that know what they are looking for / at.
Now before everybody jumps on here to tell me how marvellous he is, I am not disputing that his therapies don't work for straightforward arthritis, as it makes sense to break the crystals down and for the body to eliminate them, but for gods sake if you have anything other than arthritis, please please be very careful before you embark on this treatment.
Thankfully I am not writing this from a wheelchair, but it could have so easily been a different story.
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