Journal article
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy: A systematic review of its use in fracture management
Abstract
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy is increasingly used as an adjuvant therapy in the management of nonunions, delayed unions and more recently fresh fractures. This is in an effort to increase union rates or obtain unions when fractures have proven recalcitrant to healing. In this report we have systematically reviewed the English language literature to attempt to determine the potential clinical efficacy of extracorporeal shockwave therapy in …
Authors
Petrisor B; Lisson S; Sprague S
Journal
Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 161–167
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2009
DOI
10.4103/0019-5413.50851
ISSN
0019-5413