In the mid-1990s, STORZ MEDICAL discovered the effectiveness of shock waves in the treatment of peripheral neurological diseases such as post-traumatic spasms, spastic paralysis and polyneuropathy. 2014 saw the first treatment of Alzheimer's patients with shock waves, performed in close co-operation with clinical partners in Germany and Austria.
In 2018, Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS®) with the NEUROLITH® system was the first, and hitherto only, procedure of its kind to obtain authorization for the »treatment of the central nervous system of patients with Alzheimer's disease«.