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Wasabi Method | Shockwave Therapy Training

Shockwave Summit • Oct. 24–25 • Las Vegas Register

CLINICAL EDUCATION / HANDS-ON APPLICATION / PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION

Shockwave Therapy Workshop

Request hands-on shockwave therapy training

Wasabi Method’s two-day Shockwave Therapy Implementation Workshop helps healthcare teams understand shockwave technology, strengthen clinical decision-making, develop reproducible hands-on technique, and establish the workflows needed to deliver a professional shockwave therapy service.

Every workshop is customized to your team, technology, clinical priorities, experience level, and implementation goals.

Every workshop is customized to your team, technology, clinical priorities, experience level, and implementation goals.

Customized. Device-Agnostic. Delivered On-Site.

Request an On-Site Workshop

Tell us about your practice, participants, available technology, and training objectives. A Wasabi Method representative will contact you to discuss curriculum options, faculty availability, scheduling, and proposal development.

Your customized proposal may address:

On-Site Education Available in North America and Australia

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Download the Workshop Brochure

Download the Wasabi Method On-Site Shockwave Therapy Implementation Workshop brochure PDF for an overview of the curriculum, learning outcomes, technology covered, faculty, sample two-day agenda, and practice implementation resources.

Shockwave Therapy Workshop Brochure | Wasabi Method
Practice implementation

Device Ownership Is Only the Beginning.

Shockwave technology can create meaningful opportunities for clinical care, patient engagement, and practice growth. Successful implementation requires more than purchasing equipment or memorizing preset protocols.

A manufacturer can demonstrate how a device operates. Wasabi Method helps your team understand how the technology connects with clinical decisions, hands-on delivery, workflow, communication, and implementation.
Limited confidence beyond initial manufacturer orientation
Preset selection replacing clinical reasoning
Inconsistent treatment technique between operators
Uncertainty about screening and expectation-setting
Underused or inconsistently used equipment
Disconnected clinical, operational, and marketing workflows
Inconsistent documentation and reassessment
Difficulty translating training into daily practice
Wasabi Method connects patient selection, biomedical principles, treatment objectives, protocol modification, hands-on technique, documentation, workflow, communication, and implementation planning.
The objectiveAn Implementation-Ready Shockwave Therapy Service
The framework

One Workshop. One Team. One Plan.

Every on-site engagement is customized around five essential areas.

01

Scientific Understanding

Build a working understanding of terminology, classifications, acoustic principles, tissue response, mechanotransduction, treatment variables, and system distinctions.

02

Clinical Reasoning

Connect history, examination findings, objectives, precautions, clinical response, and device capabilities to informed treatment decisions.

03

Psychomotor Competency

Develop reproducible skills in positioning, targeting, coupling, handling, stabilization, pressure, movement, progression, communication, and monitoring.

04

Workflow Integration

Create consistent processes for screening, consent, treatment, documentation, reassessment, follow-up, patient communication, and quality assurance.

05

Sustainable Implementation

Align service delivery with staffing, scheduling, utilization, pricing, patient education, responsible marketing, and professional development.

Training takes place where the material will be applied, allowing faculty to consider your equipment, treatment rooms, team roles, patient flow, operational constraints, and current service model.

Learning outcomes

Confidence Built Through Application.

Depending on the selected curriculum and participant qualifications, workshop participants will be prepared to:

01

Differentiate Technologies

Describe important distinctions among radial pressure-wave, focused shockwave, and related acoustic-wave technologies.

02

Explain Biomedical Principles

Discuss physical principles, tissue interactions, mechanotransduction, treatment objectives, and delivery variables.

03

Screen Patients Appropriately

Integrate history, examination, indications, precautions, contraindications, expectations, and referral considerations.

04

Select + Modify Protocols

Choose starting parameters and adjust for anatomy, depth, tolerance, objectives, response, and device capability.

05

Demonstrate Technique

Perform positioning, targeting, coupling, handling, stabilization, movement, communication, and monitoring.

06

Apply Clinical Reasoning

Develop defensible plans and recognize when treatment should be modified, paused, discontinued, or referred.

07

Establish Workflows

Create repeatable processes for consultation, consent, treatment, documentation, reassessment, and follow-up.

08

Implement Responsibly

Address staffing, scheduling, pricing, utilization, education, quality assurance, and ethical marketing.

The on-site experience

Science Translated Into Informed Action.

Two days on-site. Eight learning blocks. One practice-specific plan.

Before

Align the Workshop

  • Participant disciplines and experience
  • Available devices
  • Priority clinical applications
  • Workflow and implementation barriers
  • Business and utilization objectives
  • Facility, competency, curriculum, and faculty needs
During

Build Applied Skill

  • Biomedical and clinical instruction
  • Case-based reasoning
  • Instructor demonstrations
  • Guided hands-on practice
  • Protocol-selection exercises
  • Anatomical targeting
  • Skills feedback
  • Workflow and implementation mapping
After

Implement With Purpose

Your team leaves with a framework designed to support continued refinement, internal accountability, appropriate technology utilization, and consistent service delivery.

The goal is not information alone. The goal is informed action.

Sample agenda

Eight Blocks. One Coordinated Plan.

The final agenda is customized to participant qualifications, available technology, selected curriculum, and practice objectives.

Day one

Foundations + Clinical Application

01

Foundations

Terminology, classifications, acoustic principles, energy generation, tissue interaction, mechanotransduction, variables, precautions, indications, and evidence.

02

Technique Laboratory

Radial and focused systems, applicators, coupling, targeting, positioning, control, movement, progression, tolerance, and common errors.

03

Clinical Application

Practice-specific applications selected according to qualifications, scope, available technology, and workshop objectives.

04

Cases + Hands-On Practice

Screening, protocol selection, setting modification, technique, response monitoring, progression, and documentation.

Day two

Advanced Decisions + Implementation

05

Advanced Clinical Decisions

Case differentiation, sequencing, parameter adjustment, reassessment, sensitivity, and decisions to modify, pause, discontinue, or refer.

06

Clinical Workflow

Consultation, screening, expectations, consent, room setup, documentation, follow-up, staff roles, and quality assurance.

07

Business + Patient Education

Positioning, responsible education, pricing, scheduling, utilization, referrals, professional credibility, and launch planning.

08

Implementation Planning

Gap analysis, priorities, responsibilities, service-model development, roadmap creation, faculty feedback, and next steps.

Device-agnostic education

Learn the Principles. Understand Your Platform.

Education is organized around transferable scientific and clinical principles—not dependence on one manufacturer, platform, or preset library. Faculty may work with your equipment, demonstration systems, or both.

Radial Pressure-Wave

  • Pressure or intensity
  • Frequency and pulse count
  • Applicator selection and targeting
  • Movement and operator pressure
  • Patient tolerance and progression
  • Handpiece management
VS.

Focused Shockwave

  • Energy level or energy flux density
  • Focal depth, pulse count, and frequency
  • Localization and anatomical targeting
  • Patient tolerance and progression
  • Device-specific safety considerations

Common platforms may include STORZ Medical, Chattanooga, EMS, BTL, Zimmer, Wasabi Method, and other established manufacturers.

Custom curriculum

Build the Workshop Your Practice Needs.

Your program is assembled around your team, technology, professional scope, experience, clinical priorities, and implementation goals.

Clinical Education

  • Shockwave therapy fundamentals
  • Musculoskeletal applications
  • Men’s and women’s sexual health
  • Pelvic health
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Aesthetic applications
  • Complementary and adjunctive applications

Practice Implementation

  • Clinical workflow development
  • Device-specific training
  • Patient consultation and education
  • Documentation and follow-up
  • Business practices and utilization planning
  • Medical marketing
  • Launch and optimization planning
Who should attend?

Designed for Healthcare Teams.

Structured for licensed healthcare providers and appropriately certified allied-care professionals whose education, credentials, and permitted scope support the selected curriculum.

PhysiciansChiropractorsPodiatristsPhysical therapists / PhysiotherapistsNurse practitionersPhysician associates / AssistantsAthletic + rehabilitation professionalsPelvic- + sexual-health cliniciansMedical directorsQualified clinical staffPractice + implementation leaders

On-site education gives clinical providers, support staff, and operational leaders a shared vocabulary, consistent expectations, and a coordinated implementation plan.

Your faculty

Clinical Experience. Implementation Expertise.

Faculty assignments are matched to curriculum, participant disciplines, available technology, and practice objectives.

AG

Dr. Adam Gavine

Co-Founder + CEO, Wasabi Method

Musculoskeletal and shockwave therapy educator connecting scientific principles with clinical reasoning, hands-on technique, protocol development, and technology integration.

BG

Dr. Betsy Greenleaf

FACOOG, FACOG, FPMRS, FAAOPM, MBA

Women’s health and pelvic medicine faculty member with expertise in sexual health, patient-centered care, screening, communication, clinical workflow, and emerging technologies.

JG

Nathaniel “Jack” Guibord, BS

Co-Founder, Wasabi Method / VP, SWSNA

Clinical educator focused on provider training, men’s sexual health, technology literacy, reproducible technique, and translating education into daily practice.

RH

Ryan Hansmeyer, BS, BA

Founder + President, SWSNA

Healthcare technology educator and implementation specialist with an acute-care and emergency medicine background. Ryan has supported education, adoption, and workflow development across hundreds of North American practices.

What is included?

A Practice-Level Implementation Program.

Each engagement is planned as a coordinated implementation program—not an isolated lecture.

Preparation
  • Leadership consultation
  • Needs and readiness assessment
  • Practice-specific curriculum
  • Faculty and technology planning
Education
  • Scientific and clinical instruction
  • Case-based learning
  • Instructor demonstrations
  • Supervised hands-on practice
  • Technology comparison
Clinical
  • Patient-selection framework
  • Initial protocol references
  • Consultation guidance
  • Documentation expectations
  • Treatment-room workflow
  • Reassessment and follow-up
Practice
  • Provider and staff responsibilities
  • Pricing considerations
  • Utilization planning
  • Launch or optimization checklist
  • Education and marketing roadmap
Continued Development
  • Participant resources
  • Skills or knowledge checks
  • Certificate when included
  • Professional community access
  • Follow-up support options
Delivered by Wasabi Method in collaboration with the Shock Wave Society of North America and Scrip Companies.

Shockwave Therapy Workshop

FAQs

An on-site shockwave therapy implementation workshop is customized clinical and operational education delivered at your healthcare practice. Wasabi Method combines scientific instruction, clinical reasoning, guided hands-on training, workflow development, and implementation planning in one practice-specific program.

The standard program is structured as a two-day, on-site workshop with eight coordinated learning blocks. The final schedule may be adapted to the participants, curriculum, available technology, and objectives of the practice.

No. Wasabi Method training is device-agnostic. Education focuses on transferable principles while helping participants understand the settings, capabilities, terminology, and safety requirements of the technology available at their practice.

Yes. Faculty may work with radial pressure-wave systems, focused shockwave systems, or a combination of available technologies. Device availability and training requirements are reviewed during workshop planning.

On-site education is available for qualifying practices in North America and Australia, subject to faculty availability, scheduling, travel requirements, and curriculum needs.

Pricing depends on location, participant count, faculty requirements, curriculum, available technology, travel, and implementation scope. Submit the workshop request form to receive a customized proposal.

Yes. Hands-on education may include positioning, targeting, coupling, applicator handling, movement, stabilization, parameter selection, patient communication, treatment monitoring, and instructor feedback. Activities are adapted to participant qualifications and the selected curriculum.

Yes. Curriculum can be developed around your team’s professional disciplines, clinical priorities, available equipment, experience, workflow, and implementation goals. Potential subject areas include musculoskeletal care, pelvic health, sexual health, regenerative medicine, aesthetics, and complementary applications.

Programs are intended for licensed healthcare providers and appropriately certified allied-care professionals whose education, credentials, and legal scope support participation in the selected material. Practices may also include relevant operational and implementation personnel in appropriate portions of the workshop.

Yes. Depending on your objectives, the program may address clinical workflow, patient consultation, documentation, staffing, scheduling, utilization, pricing considerations, responsible patient education, ethical marketing, and launch planning.

A certificate of completion may be included when specified in the workshop proposal. Continuing education or professional-development credit should not be assumed unless it is expressly identified and approved for the specific program.

Early requests provide the greatest scheduling flexibility, particularly when specialized faculty or travel coordination is required. Practices should submit preferred dates or a general timeframe through the request form.

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EDUCATIONAL NOTE:

Wasabi Method workshops are intended for qualified healthcare professionals and appropriately certified allied-care professionals. Participation does not expand professional licensure, legal scope of practice, or professional authority. Participants and participating organizations remain responsible for applicable laws and regulations, facility policies, professional standards, device labeling, manufacturer documentation, independent clinical judgment, patient-specific assessment, and appropriate specialist consultation.