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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