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,