ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2019
Efficacy of Different Energy Levels Used in Focused and Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06466616 (Efficacy of Applying Shock Waves Combined With Leg Stretching in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Efficacy of Applying Shock Waves Combined With Leg Stretching in Patients With Plantar Fasciitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
- Focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy for the treatment of low back pain: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- The effectiveness of radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) in plantar fasciitis: a 12 months randomised controlled trial in a Tunisian rehabilitation department.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Trial
- Plantar Fasciitis Research: A Bibliometric Analysis From 2010-2024.Journal of foot and ankle research · 2026Review
- High-Intensity Laser Therapy Versus Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy for Plantar Fasciitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Comparative Effectiveness of Ultrasound-Guided Corticosteroid Injection and Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Plantar Fasciitis: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2025Article
- Radial versus focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy in lateral epicondylitis: Acute effects on pain, muscle strength, upper extremity function, and quality of life.Turkish journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Immediate effects of extracorporeal radial pressure wave therapy on dystonia, static plantar pressure distribution, and balance in patients with Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Comparison of the Short-Term Effect between Iontophoresis and Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Dose Escalation Can Enhance the Therapeutic Potential of Radial Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis in Runners.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Review
- Selected Techniques for Physiotherapy in Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Best practices for extracorporeal shockwave therapy in musculoskeletal medicine: Clinical application and training consideration.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Development and Validation of a 7-Gene Inflammatory Signature Forecasts Prognosis and Diverse Immune Landscape in Lung Adenocarcinoma.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Article
- A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on the Epidemiology, Evaluation, and Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Low-intensity shock wave therapy for the treatment of vasculogenic erectile dysfunction: a narrative review of technical considerations and treatment outcomes.Translational andrology and urology · 2021Review
- Retrospective comparison of focused shockwave therapy and radial wave therapy for men with erectile dysfunction.Translational andrology and urology · 2020Article
- Current Concepts of Minimally Invasive Treatment Options for Plantar Fasciitis: a Comprehensive Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2020Review
- Ozonated autohemotherapy combined with pulsed radiofrequency in the treatment of thoracic postherpetic neuralgia in older adults: a retrospective study.Medical gas researchArticle
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of different energy levels used in extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) in the treatment of plantar fasciitis using a systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library, from inception to March 2019 for randomized controlled trials that compared ESWT with placebo in patients with plantar fasciitis. The risk of bias for selected articles was assessed based on the Cochrane Handbook Systematic Review of Interventions. The pooled data were estimated by the mean difference or odds ratio. The meta-analysis showed that the high-energy ESWT group had a better success rate than the control group only at a three-month follow-up, but no significant difference between groups was observed for the other follow-up visits (1 and 12 months). In addition, no significant differences in visual analog scale (VAS) scores between groups were observed for all the follow-up visits (one-month and three-month). On the contrary, the medium-energy ESWT group had significantly better success rates than the control group for all the follow-up visits (3, 6, and 12 months). In addition, the medium-energy ESWT group had significant improvement in VAS scores compared with the control group for all the follow-up visits (1, 3, 6, and 12 months) after removing the extreme values. The low-energy ESWT group had significant improvement in VAS scores compared with the control group for all the follow-up visits (3 and 12 months). Otherwise, focused ESWT seems to be more effective than radial ESWT when compared with the control group. Use of local anesthesia can reduce the efficacy of low- and high-energy ESWTs. Our meta-analysis suggested that medium-energy ESWT in the treatment of plantar fasciitis was more effective than the control group. A limited number of trials related to low- and high-energy ESWTs were included in our meta-analysis. More research is required to confirm the efficacy of low- and high-energy ESWTs in future studies.
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