What is Shockwave Therapy?
At Parkway Physiotherapy, our advanced extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) uses high-energy acoustic pulses to penetrate deep into soft tissues. This non-invasive treatment accelerates healing in muscles, tendons, ligaments, and fascia—no drugs or surgery required
How Shockwave Therapy Works
- Delivers focused or radial shockwaves to stimulate tissue regeneration, promote blood flow, and trigger healing pathways.
- Studies reveal notable increases in collagen production, cell proliferation, VEGF, and muscle re-innervation.
Benefits of Shockwave Therapy
- Non-surgical, minimal downtime, and rarely causes side effects .
- Effective pain relief—often within just 2–3 sessions.
- Supports healing of tendons (e.g., Achilles, patellar), plantar fascia, shoulder, elbow, and more.
- Aids bone repair, including fracture non-unions.
The Data is In
Scientifically Backed Results
At Parkway, we use what’s called radial shockwave treatment. Radial waves start narrow and spread the energy outwards so that they are safer yet still enjoy many of the same therapeutic options.
84%
Improvement for people with plantar fasciitis
95%
Relief for myofascial trigger points
100%
Non-invasive
Shockwave Therapy in Langford, Sooke, and Saanich
Get the solutions you need
At Parkway Physiotherapy and Performance Centre we offer Shockwave therapy as a treatment option and when prescribed by your chiropractor or physiotherapist, it can be claimed under most medical plans.
Tendon Injuries
Chronic tendon injuries are characterized by degeneration in the tendon and infiltration of a different type of connective tissue. These connective tissues are weaker and thicker and grow with new pain fibres attached. Shockwave therapy can help to heal the chronic injury.
Trigger Points
These trigger points are revealed by tight knots in the muscle. If you’ve pressed into your won sore muscles you’ve probably got myofascial trigger points and if you have no sore areas anywhere, well you probably don’t have any trigger points.
Plantar Fasciitis
This type of heel pain is the one that is usually worst first thing in the morning upon getting out of bed. The plantar fascia is actually a ligament not a tendon so this has opened up the possibility of treating difficult ligament injuries with Shockwave therapy.
Bone Fractures
Shockwave therapy is also used to treat non-union of fractures as it also stimulates bone healing. Yes, this is a pretty neat technology that helps stimulate healing of muscle, tendon, ligament, bone and blood vessel.
We Offer Direct Billing to Insurance
Parkway Physiotherapy direct bills ICBC and most extended medical plans in BC with minimal to no out of pocket expenses. 

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