Believe it or not, research has shown that shockwave therapy works the same way as us eating red chilli peppers! Bite on a chilli pepper and your mouth will start feeling like it’s on fire, followed by a tingling numbness.

To give you a better idea, in the human body, C nerve fibers will release a specific substance called ‘substance P’ which is responsible for transmitting pain. When shockwave therapy is activated at the very beginning, the C nerve fibers will release substance P, however, after a certain period the nerve fibers will become incapacitated and thus release a lower quantity of substance P which will reduce the overall pain in the area (hence the reference to numbness!). Reduction in substance P can also cause a declination of neurogenic inflammation and lead to faster healing by activating stem cells in the treated tissue.