Hey guys, welcome to Podiatry. Practice Mastery done here.
Today, I'm going to go over day one of the kind of regenerative
medicine or Shockwave course that there was in Boston.
I kind of like to I think this this, I like talking through
things because it helps me, personally, but it also will
help others that are using shock wave or listening or thinking
about doing Shockwave. So, a little, the backstory we
in our practice. I think it's been about five
years now. We've been doing it using shock
wave. Dave, and we've been using the
real, we started with the radial device and then we added the
focus device and we were thinking about doing, or I'm
thinking now that I'm here about the EMT T.
So that's kind of our backstory, we have three devices, we have
two radial devices, one in each our office, and then the
Westboro office. We have a focused one.
We didn't get too focused only because just frankly the price,
right? We didn't we didn't want for
devices. So let me let me go through and
do something that I, that, I call that I learned from
strategic coach called of experience Transformer.
What an experienced friends former does is it looks at kind
of what worked, what didn't work and what would I do differently?
I'll talk specifically about for me, okay?
So, what worked about the course is it was great because it was
in my backyard. I did have an offer to go to one
in Chicago, and to go to one in different places, but I didn't
want to travel because the kids that's something that that I
liked about it. There was Breakfast.
Kind of starting out with all the coffee we could drink and it
was a nice group. What I really liked about it
was, there was I guess maybe. I don't know, 70 people maybe
80. I can't really tell how many
were there, but it wasn't just Podiatry.
So, it was people that were in Aesthetics people that were in
Chiropractic Physical Therapy Urology, a lot of different
Specialties. So what it what it makes me feel
like, is like, there is credibility for this device or
for regenerative medicine or shock wave therapy.
Repeat amongst multiple Specialties which is kind of a
nice thing. The lecturers were nice, they
weren't boring for any of you that do presentations.
What I really liked, actually with the AV people is that they
had some nice sounds like music as people were getting up.
The, the presentations were very, I guess somewhere
academic. Actually, most of them were
academic and the today, the first day was pretty much all on
academics and I thought it was very appropriate, both for
Podiatry but as well, Or other assets.
So the first part of the day almost until about 2:00, maybe
2230 was all lectures and then there was all hands on, so I can
actually get my hands on the EMT T and I could see others doing
the focused in the radial. My favorite lectures are always
kind of the ones that have more practical things.
And so Paul hole, bro, if you haven't heard about Paul, he's
got some great shock wave stuff, just Google his name Paulo bro,
he's from the UK. Okay, and he had some great
points and tips about how to do it for plantar, fasciitis, and
achilles tendonitis and kind of his protocols.
I really like that. Also his stretching or recovery
protocols, as well. So, and so what I personally
found that the best about it was, well, it just confirmed
that like Shockwave is the best thing.
And I learned a lot of different phrases and I'll be talking
about this in the future when I do some other episodes, but like
certain phrases of how to explain things like
specifically, I was talking to a couple of podiatrist and 11
gentleman. He says, basically, he only
offers Shockwave and says, hey, basically, this is how I treat
plantar fasciitis, or this is how I treat achilles tendonitis
and like take it or leave it. And there was another gentleman
that said, kind of gay people. The options, you know.
So you can, you can do Shockwave, or you cannot do
Shockwave or meaning. You can do this protocol or this
protocol and what he says though, but if you're not
getting better with the normal protocol, like don't blame me if
you're not getting better. Faster because I know this works
getting you faster. So a lot of it is is the the how
you explain it. Also, I really liked the idea of
treating two different body parts.
I know that's kind of challenge, but with EMT T it's like a five
or ten minute kind of a treatment in its automated very
similar to like using a low level laser device and it you
kind of see them and then you just leave them on that device.
Then you can go see another patient.
That's the nice thing. I like about the EMT t.i.
I did. I'm excited about kind of trying
it in our office. Other good things.
It was really just a camaraderie and talking to other other
Physicians. My favorite one act, it was was
talking to a physical therapist and he is doing it for like
arthritis and he's thinking about doing it for Aesthetics.
Like I don't think we're going to do Aesthetics but arthritis
would work and he's going to be kind of like working on like a
subscription basically. You get let's say I'm no four
sessions a month and you can let friends and family used and I
thought that was a really neat application.
Station, if your scope is with, like, physical therapy in your
scope, is the whole body. So I really like some of that
forward-thinking type of idea. I also liked the table, I was
sitting with was mostly kind of body work people.
They were not, they were like physical therapists and people
like that, but they're so treating the whole body, they're
treating the knees, they're treating the hips, the treating
other parts of the body, which it was nice to see that.
And a lot of them do have both focused and Radial Andy.
TT. So, those are the things I liked
things. I didn't like, I was, I tried
the MTT, I didn't like and we're going to do this tomorrow
because, like, it was kind of a basic the original Hands-On.
So it'd be nice to really get down and actually get my hands
on and see what other people's Protocols are or even if they
could be written up, because in the slides they, many times went
too fast. So I think kind of giving us
some of these Protocols of other people giving us the slide decks
and people had said they're going to be really open.
So if we email them or email someone, one of the Reps, they
We'll get those things to us. Those slide decks or the slide
decks. Were those slides, what other
people are using? Because one of the challenges
that I've had with shockwave, specifically, is using it from
neuropathy and using it for like a neuroma and using it for
arthritis. I'm not seeing the best results
with that, and I'm not sure if it's my, my Shockwave level or
like, if I'm, it's not, I'm too intense or not intense enough or
not, using the right tip on it, but I am seeing great results,
like I couldn't do now. Plantar fasciitis, achilles
tendonitis. Um peroneal suppose you know,
things like that without it. So another kind of bad thing
that we did talk about a lot of Urology stuff and a little too
much too much pictures and images if you can imagine what
I'm saying for some Plastics cases but it was just nice to
see other countries kind of using using Shockwave, kind of
a. If I could do it better or what
would I change? The kind of like the third.
That's a third aspect of the experience Transformer.
I don't think I would change anything.
It was it was a good thing. Thing, I think I would probably
have more boldness to ask more of my questions a specifically
about. I think that it's specifically
it's about like the protocols of what other people are doing.
So like having those written out.
Hey, this is what we find works, you know, having our written
out. So I guess I'm going to take it
on me and kind of write mine out and then send them to others and
say, hey, does this sound? Does it sound good?
That, that's what I could do. And also using all the other
tips, I don't use any of the tips.
There's like tons of tips and I felt like I needed to use two or
three of them, and I didn't need to use all of Anyway, that's the
idea from day, one of the Shockwave course.
Certainly, I'd love to know what your thoughts are.
Please email each email me down at Podiatry, practice, Master
e.com. Once again, I am not an
affiliate for Shockwave. I just like to learn and this
was a great opportunity to go to one of these courses on it.
Okay, once again, thank you guys, let me know if you want.
Once again, my protocols how I used Shockwave.
I have the my toolkit and basically, if you go to Podiatry
practice Master.com, you can get My my patient presentations that
tool and in there, you're going to see how I use shock wave for
each of the conditions, this little graph that I use, and if
you click on the link, it's going to actually go to the
Shockwave kind of slide that I used to explain it to patients.
So I am doing it quite a bit. Maybe not as much as some of
these people. So, hopefully, when I get done,
I was thinking to myself, like, what do we would?
It be great if I like only did Shockwave?
Wouldn't that? We just a nice practice.
I see some of the people there. The one I admired, the most was,
was Paul I'll bro he he sees 16 patients a day 3 days a week and
that's all he does a shock wave and I was thinking hmmm like
that would be pretty a pretty good gig, let's say you charge
$300. And he I think he does his out
of his house with one room and so you doing, $300 times 16,
right? So you can imagine how much that
is, I can't do math as I'm talking but then four days a
week and that's it. Nothing else really low
overhead. I just think that was a kind of
a neat idea. I do also have another gentleman
I've interviewed in the past. His name is Dean Dorfman deanza
friend of mine from Florida and I did an interview with him and
that's on a Podiatry practice Mastery on the, on the, on the
YouTube channel. I'll put it underneath this
video or this audio and his his video there he does, that's all
he does is practice. So I kind of admire that there
are certain people doing it. Let me know what your thoughts
are. Okay, thanks,