Bone healing induced by ESWT Mini review

نویسندگان

  • Biagio Moretti
  • Angela Notarnicola
  • Lorenzo Moretti
  • Silvio Patella
  • Ilaria Tatò
  • Vittorio Patella
چکیده

It has been at least two decades since the introduction of Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Treatment (ESWT) for the treatment of non-unions; despite conflicting opinions in the literature, it is recently achieving good results also in acute fractures. This paper reports Authors’ clinical experience with electromagnetic shock-waves in the treatment of delayed unions and fresh fractures. Nonunion cases experienced remarkable successful results at an average of 8-10 weeks after ESWT; high success rate is been also found for the acute fractures. It can be concluded that this therapy constitutes an important aid in treatment of non-unions and can be useful also in fresh bone fractures.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009