SWT has allowed Aksel Lund Svindal to return to full fitness ahead of his gold medal-winning performance for Norway at the Winter Olympics in Canada.
Shock Wave Therapy Recovery For Winter Olympics Skiing Champion
Aksel said: “It (SWT) allowed me to recover from an injury earlier than expected allowing me to participate in the ski alpine world cups in Lake Louise, Beaver Creek and Val d’Isere and laid the ground for me to win the Super G in Groeden and the Super G gold medal at the Winter Olympics.”
Aksel was so impressed with the treatment that turned to SWT again to help him overcome injury before the recent Winter Olympics.”
Recreational skiiers are no strangers to soft tissue conditions, such as tennis elbow, Achilles tendinopathy and plantar fasciitis that can blight their skiing season. Luckily help is at hand to deal with these, often difficult to treat, conditions. We see many such people in our clinics at Specialist SWT and are pleased to be able to help them to overcome these troublesome conditions using a treatment that involves no needles and that is delivered in a outpatient clinic setting.
We have found shock wave therapy recovery to be 70-80% successful in a wide range of patients some of who have had various painful conditions, for a number of years