Patent ID: 8684970

Claim:
A therapeutic apparatus for treating body tissue, comprising: a vessel enclosing a detonation chamber allowing introduction a detonatable and reactive mixture into said detonation chamber through flow control valves controlled by a control system and able to contain detonation products after detonation; a spark plug, laser, glow plug or plasma jet ignition system capable to ignite said detonatable mixture in said detonation chamber to form at least one shockwave and/or acoustic wave; a wave guide assembly connected to said vessel and having a wave guide passageway formed within a passageway enclosure and converging toward a distal end of said wave guide assembly; said wave guide passageway being closed at a distal end of said wave guide assembly by an end cap connected to said passageway enclosure; said end cap adapted to engage body tissue to be treated; said passageway allowing transmission of the at least one shockwave and/or acoustic wave generated in said detonation chamber to said end cap; and said end cap formed from material selected to permit the at least one shockwave and/or acoustic wave to be transmitted therethrough to act on body tissue in contact with said end cap.