Dr. Justin Houman
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Shockwave is probably the best one.
The way it came about is as urologists, we treat kidney stones, right?
Kidney stones.
Anyways, so we treat kidney stones.
One of the ways we do it is with high energy sound waves from the outside.
And you can just break the stone up into pieces?
Exactly.
From the back, right?
Okay.
And long story short, one time they looked into the kidney.
They're like, wow, this kidney, one of these patients who had numerous shockwave treatments, like, wow, this kidney looks very well vascularized.
I wonder what this high-energy sound wave is doing.
So we've done a lot of studies on this, and we see now that high-energy sound waves can lead to neovascularization or new blood vessel growth.
Why?
It's creating microtraumas.
That microtrauma essentially, it doesn't kill it, but a little bit of microtrauma eventually leads to new blood vessel growth.
Wow.
It works.
So we do it for the erections.
There's orthopedic surgeons who do it for tendons.