Analgesic effect of extracorporeal shock-wave therapy on chronic tennis elbow
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...In clinical application, extracorporeal shock wave therapy has shown effect in the treatment of certain orthopedic conditions including non-union of long bone fracture [21,30,32,37,39], calcifying tendonitis of the shoulder [15,27,31,33,42], lateral epicondylitis of the elbow [10,13,24,28,34], proximal plantar fasciitis [6,19,20, 25,29] and Achilles tendonitis [24]....
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...For tendinopathy, it was postulated that shock wave therapy provokes painful level of stimulation, and relieves pain due to tendinopathy at the tendon–bone junction by hyper-stimulation analgesia [14,17,22,23,26,28,33,34, 37]....
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...While the duration of symptoms was again longer than in our trial (mean [range] duration of symptoms: 22 [6-120] months and24....
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...The shock waves are used to provoke painful levels of stimulation to relieve pain, by so-called hyperstimulation analgesia (Melzack 1975)....
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...The best method of treatment has not been established (Labelle et al 1992) and both conservative (Mucha and Wannske 1989; Haker and Lundeberg 1991) and operative regimes (Wittenberg, Schaal and Muhr 1992; Verhaar et al 1993) have been advocated....
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