Lateral epicondylitis: This is still a main indication for extracorporeal shockwave therapy

[摘要] 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. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Limited.

[发布日期] 2015-12-01

[关键词] ESWT;Lateral epicondylitis;Review RCT's;Shockwave therapy;Main indication