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

S Thiele; R Thiele; L Gerdesmeyer

doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.09.034

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

Int J Surg. 2015 Dec;24(Pt B):165-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.09.034. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

Authors

S Thiele¹, R Thiele², L Gerdesmeyer³

Affiliations

¹ IZS - Berlin, Internationales Stoßwellenzentrum Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 61, D-10707, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: SergejThiele@web.de.
² IZS - Berlin, Internationales Stoßwellenzentrum Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 61, D-10707, Berlin, Germany.
³ Dept. Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold Heller Strasse, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.

PMID: 26455532
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2015.09.034

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.

Keywords: ESWT; Lateral epicondylitis; Main indication; Review RCT's; Shockwave therapy.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Evidence-Based Medicine
High-Energy Shock Waves / therapeutic use*
Humans
Tennis Elbow / therapy*