<p>Effects of extracorporeal shock waves on neuralgia in diabetic rats</p>

Biological effects of extracorporeal shock waves on fibroblasts. A review.

Tissue homeostasis is influenced by mechanical forces which regulate the normal function of connective tissues. Mechanotransduction, the process that transforms mechanical stimuli in chemical signals, involves mechanosensory units integrated in cell membrane. The mechanosensory units are able to activate gene expression for growth factors or cytochines as well as to induce a biological event wh...

Extracorporeal shock waves act by shock wave-gas bubble interaction.

The effect of extracorporeal shock waves on hemoglobin release from red blood cells was recently found to be minimized under minute static excess pressure. It was proposed that this can be explained by shock wave-gas bubble interaction. We substantiated this further by two experiments by applying shock waves to suspended human RBC in a lithotripter at a lower frequency (1 pulse every 5 s) and b...

Acetabular augmentation induced by extracorporeal shock waves in rabbits.

We conducted this animal study to demonstrate whether exposing the acetabulum in immature rabbits to extracorporeal shock waves induces bone formation in the acetabulum. Five thousand shock waves of 100 MPa each were directed, from outside, at the acetabular roof of eight immature rabbits. At each of two time points (4 and 8 weeks) after treatment, the pelvises of four rabbits were removed and ...

Treatment of Peyronies Disease (pd) by Extracorporeal Shock Waves (esw)

Physikalische Parameter extrakorporaler Stoßwellen Physical Parameters of Extracorporeal Shock Waves

Zur Evaluierung des Wirkmechanismus, der Vergleichbarkeit unterschiedlicher StoßwellenqueUen und zur Erstellung von Therapiestandards der ESWT (Extracorporale Stoßwellentherapie) ist die meßtechnische Erfassung und Kenntnis der physikalischen Parameter Voraussetzung. Die genauesten Meßergebnisse werden mit Glasfaserhydrophonen erzielt. Einer typischen Schalldruckkurve können somit verschiedene ...