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Author Spotlight: Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Achilles Tendinopathy Treatment
Published on: August 2, 2024
Lateral epicondylitis: This is still a main indication for extracorporeal shockwave therapy
S Thiele1, R Thiele1, L Gerdesmeyer2
1IZS - Berlin, Internationales Stoßwellenzentrum Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 61, D-10707, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is used in a number of indications in the medical field. A number of tendinopathies show good and excellent results due to evidence based medicine. The treatment of lateral epicondylitis is known to show conflicting results. This overview of the published RCT's on ESWT for lateral epicondylitis tries to show the reasons for this conflicting data-base and point out, why we think that this is still a main indication for extracorporeal shockwave therapy.

