Olympics Are Around The Corner, Be The Best You Can Be!

Currently Olympic athletes are doing what they can to get ready for this summer’s Olympics and you can too.  Treat your plantar fasciitis or tennis elbow today!

Read this article about how Crista Cullen used ESWT to treat her heel pain to keep her dreams alive in this year Games.

Medics help keep Olympic dream alive

MD News Article About the Benefits ESWT

In the May/ June issue of MD News, Dr. Rocco Petrozzi, Assistant Professor and Chairman of Podiatric Medicine at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine who practices at the Cleveland Foot & Ankle Institute talks about the benefits and procedure of ESWT for Plantar Fasciitis.

Shockwave Therapy: Modern Technology for Successful Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

New cards promoting VIP Physical Therapy and ESWT treatments

Check out our new cards that we plan on putting at local fitness and golf clubs around Springfield and Western Mass promoting VIP Physical Therapy in Springfield.  We hope this will bring awareness to people who have plantar fasciitis, tennis or golfer’s elbow or other forms of Tendonitis that there is a place locally in which you can relieve or possible cure these ailments. You can walk in and walk out!  Please let us know what you think.

What would you pay to relieve or possibly CURE your Plantar Fasciitis? Elbow Pain? Or other forms of tendonitis?

Call VIP Physical Therapy - 413-732-6005

Call Today – 413-732-6005

VIP Physical Therapy is accepting patients for the only Siemens Sonocur treatments available in the northeast.

For treatment of:

  • Tennis or Golfer’s Elbow
  • Heel Pain (Plantar Fasciitis)
  • Shoulder Tendonitis
  • Tendonitis of the Knee
  • Achilles Tendonitis


ESWT treatment is a FDA approved, non-surgical treatment that uses sound waves to encourage damaged cells to rebuild.  A procedure is about 10 minutes and it is recommended that you have a procedure once a week for three consecutive weeks.  There is a 90% success rate in pain reduction for those that receive this therapy.  Since this procedure is done outside the body (similar to an ultrasound), it has a very low risk of side effects with a quick recovery time.
To learn more please click here: SONOCUR Technology/ Patient Information

Call VIP Physical Therapy Today
413-732-6005

Dr. Marshall Lewis Partners with ESWT to Provide Sonocur Treatments

Dr. Marshall S. Lewis M.D. has partnered with Effective Shock Wave Therapy to provide Sonocur treatments for tennis elbow, heel pain (plantar fasciitis), shoulder tendonitis, and achilles tendinitis.  The non-invasive, anesthesia-free treatment can be scheduled at the Tehachapi Surgery Center in Southern CA – 661-822-1260.

ESWT is currently looking for more partners though out California as well as the United States.  If you are interested in becoming a partner please go to our – Become a Partner page.

Olympic Runner Carrie Tollefson Used Sonocur Treatment for Heel Pain

Carrie Tollefson is an American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team. She suffered from plantar fasciitis and used a Sonocur for her treatment back in 2003 before the Olympics. Here is an article from Running Times Magazine about her comback : http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=3764

In terms of treatment, Tollefson’s medical team left no known mode of plantar fasciitis therapy untried: iontophoresis, cortisone shots, acupuncture, active-release therapy, icing, and Sonorex shockwave treatments from Dr. Bill Roberts, which Tollefson credits more than anything else with her eventual recovery.