Treating Alzheimer’s patients with TPS: TPS uses shock waves to stimulate brain tissue

The acoustic pulses generated by Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS) have been used successfully in various medical fields (urology, orthopaedics, cardiology….) for decades under the term »extracorporeal shock wave therapy«.

Shock waves are similar to ultrasound. But there is a major difference:

While ultrasound is essentially a continuous wave with frequent oscillations chiefly in the megahertz range, shock waves have a single pressure pulse lasting about 1 microsecond followed by a tensile wave with a relieving effect that is of lower amplitude and has a duration of about 4 – 5 microseconds.

Owing to the short duration of the TPS stimulation, tissue heating is avoided.

The acoustic pulses are generated in the therapy handpiece of the NEUROLITH® and are then transmitted to the affected brain regions transcranially. TPS can stimulate deep cerebral regions, reaching as much as 8 cm into the brain.