If you’re dealing with knee arthritis, chronic muscle or tendon pain, or an injury that hasn’t healed despite rest, physiotherapy, exercise, or injections, SoftWave TRT may be an option worth exploring.
SoftWave Therapy is an advanced, non-invasive form of shockwave therapy (also called extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or ESWT) designed to stimulate the body’s natural repair processes, particularly in tissues that have become chronically inflamed, degenerated, or slow to heal.
At Fairway Chiropractic Centre, SoftWave Therapy is delivered as part of a whole-body healing approach — combining local tissue regeneration with global nervous system and spinal function support.
SoftWave TRT (Tissue Regeneration Therapy) uses unfocused acoustic shockwaves to deliver a biological signal into damaged tissue.
That signal tells the body:
“This area still needs healing.”
In response, the body may:
Unlike ultrasound or traditional shockwave devices, SoftWave Therapy is designed to stimulate biological healing, not simply heat tissue (such as Ultra Sound Therapy) or create micro-trauma (Such as Focused ShockWave Therapy – the common type used).
At the time of publishing this page, only sixteen clinics in Canada provide SoftWave Therapy.
Fairway Chiropractic Centre is currently the only clinic west of the Greater Toronto Area offering this technology.
This is because SoftWave Therapy is not interchangeable with other modalities.
There is no other machine that does what SoftWave does. No ultrasound, laser, PEMF, or traditional shockwave device produces the same biological signaling effect.
Patients with complex or long-standing conditions often seek out SoftWave Therapy specifically because of this difference.
SoftWave Therapy is used by several professional sports teams in the NFL, NHL, and NBA.
Healing is not only local.
Your nervous system controls healing, including:
Chiropractic care focuses on restoring proper spinal motion and nervous system communication. When spinal function improves, your body is better able to coordinate healing — making local therapies like SoftWave TRT more effective.
SoftWave TRT helps the local tissue rejuvenate. Chiropractic helps the body’s global coordination to heal, thereby making SoftWave TRT be more effective.
One of the most important — and often misunderstood — aspects of SoftWave Therapy is what happens after treatment ends.
The biological repair process initiated by SoftWave Therapy continues for up to 12 weeks (approximately 3 months) after the final treatment session.
This includes:
Because of this, treatment is not indefinite, and improvement does not stop when sessions stop.
You may feel tapping or pulsing. Discomfort usually occurs over injured tissue and is temporary and closely monitored.
Yes. SoftWave Therapy is a form of shockwave therapy — specifically, it uses unfocused (electrohydraulic) acoustic shockwaves. Many people search for shockwave therapy in Kitchener and find SoftWave. Unlike traditional focused or radial shockwave devices that create micro-trauma or simply heat tissue, SoftWave shockwave therapy delivers a regenerative biological signal — improving circulation, reducing chronic inflammation, and recruiting the body’s own repair cells.
Most patients do not require ongoing maintenance. This is the case if we are able to remove the factors which have caused the problem in the first place, and strengthen the area with good rehab.
Healing continues for up to 3 months after the final session, and treatment is stopped once maximal benefit is achieved.
Maintenance sessions are optional and based on individual needs.
Yes. SoftWave Therapy is not performed:
