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Healing Elbows, Reclaiming Movement: MOLO Therapy’s Approach to Tennis & Golfer’s Elbow

At MOLO Therapy, we believe that movement you love is therapy. But for many dealing with tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) or golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis), movement has become a source of frustration, not freedom. These chronic overuse injuries cause pain, stiffness, and dysfunction due to tendon degeneration, microtears, and impaired blood flow. Whether you're gripping a tennis racket, lifting weights, or just carrying groceries, that deep ache in your elbow is a sign that your tissue has lost its capacity to handle load — and it's time to train it back.

While traditional medicine leans heavily on rest, NSAIDs, cortisone shots, or bracing, MOLO Therapy takes a regenerative approach. We leverage cutting-edge tools like SoftWave Therapy, intelligent loading strategies, and movement-based care to stimulate healing from the inside out — so you can get back to doing what you love without pills, punctures, or procedures.

1. SoftWave Therapy: Wake Up Your Elbow’s Healing Potential

SoftWave Therapy is our primary regenerative treatment for chronic elbow pain. It uses broad-focused electrohydraulic shockwaves to stimulate deep tissue healing without breaking the skin. Unlike traditional focused or radial shockwaves that drill into a tiny spot, SoftWave creates a therapeutic wave zone — covering more tissue with less discomfort and no microtrauma.

💥 How It Works:

• Stimulates Blood Flow: Improves oxygen and nutrient delivery to degenerative tendons.

• Turns On Stem Cells: Reactivates dormant healing processes in your elbow.

• Modulates Inflammation: Reduces chronic, stuck inflammation so healing can proceed.

• Triggers Collagen Remodeling: Encourages strong, Type I collagen to rebuild your tendons.

• Boosts Growth Factors: Enhances your body’s own tissue regeneration chemistry.

🔬 What the Science Says:

Research shows that SoftWave (ESWT) improves pain and function significantly in elbow tendinopathies — often succeeding where rest, ice, or injections fail. In one study, ESWT helped patients return to activity faster and reduced their need for pain meds compared to physical therapy alone (D’Agostino et al., 2017; Schroeder et al., 2021).

✅ Who It’s For:

Anyone with chronic elbow pain, failed injection therapy, or poor results from rest or physical therapy. At MOLO, we pair SoftWave with intentional movement retraining to build resilience, not dependency.

2. High-Intensity Laser Therapy (HILT): A Light-Based Support Tool

HILT uses powerful light energy to spark cell metabolism and reduce inflammation. Think of it like charging up your tendons’ cellular batteries. While it doesn't activate stem cells like SoftWave does, it can support short-term pain relief.

🚦 Caveats:

• Some evidence supports pain reduction, but functional gains are inconsistent.

• Not a stand-alone fix — best used in combination with movement and load management.

3. Therapeutic Ultrasound: Deep Heat, Modest Gains

Ultrasound warms the tissues, improves blood flow, and temporarily relieves stiffness. It’s useful early on to improve mobility but doesn’t promote tendon regeneration the way SoftWave or even eccentric loading does.

🧠 MOLO Tip:

Use it as a bridge to movement, not as your main strategy. We’ll use this as part of your warm-up to get tendons primed before loading.

4. Percutaneous Ultrasonic Tenotomy: For Severe, Stubborn Elbows

This is a minimally invasive procedure that breaks up scar tissue in degenerative tendons using an ultrasound-guided needle. It's often paired with PRP (platelet-rich plasma) to boost healing.

⚠️ MOLO Philosophy:

We only consider this when non-invasive options like SoftWave + intelligent training have been exhausted. Remember: invasive treatments interrupt movement — our goal is to restore it.

5. Kinesiology Taping & Bracing: External Support, Not a Cure

Taping and bracing reduce strain on painful tendons and may improve proprioception. They're helpful for short-term relief, especially during flare-ups or specific movements that trigger pain.

🧩 MOLO Integration:

Think of these as training wheels — not your long-term ride. We use them to reduce pain while retraining your movement patterns and tendon load tolerance.

The MOLO Way: Rebuild Tissue. Restore Load Capacity. Reclaim Movement.

We don’t chase pain. We investigate it. We treat the root, not just the symptoms. At MOLO Therapy, we blend Softwave's regenerative science with progressive loading strategies, tissue prep, and movement coaching to restore function at the elbow and beyond

Shocking regards,

Derek Parker