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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Effectiveness of Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Patients with Acute Low Back Pain-Randomized Controlled Trial.

Tobias Lange, Niklas Deventer, Georg Gosheger, Lukas P Lampe, Sebastian Bockholt, Albert Schulze Boevingloh, Tobias L Schulte

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05308641 (Effectiveness of Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain - Randomized Controlled Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05308641 naactive not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Effectiveness of Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain - Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorRuhr University of BochumRan2022 to 2025Enrolled400ConditionsChronic Low-back Pain (cLBP)Armsradial extracorporeal shockwave therapy_4000_20, radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy_500_2, standard multimodal pain therapy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. [Shockwave therapy for low back pain].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tobias LangeDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2897-8145
Niklas DeventerDepartment of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics, Muenster University Hospital, 48149 Muenster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5186-2060
Georg GoshegerDepartment of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics, Muenster University Hospital, 48149 Muenster, Germany.
Lukas P LampeDepartment of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics, Muenster University Hospital, 48149 Muenster, Germany.
Sebastian BockholtDepartment of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics, Muenster University Hospital, 48149 Muenster, Germany.
Albert Schulze BoevinglohDepartment of Orthopaedics and Tumour Orthopaedics, Muenster University Hospital, 48149 Muenster, Germany.
Tobias L SchulteDepartment of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44791 Bochum, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4798-3086
University Hospital Münster · DESt. Josef-Hospital · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy (rESWT) primarily on acute lumbar back pain (aLBP), and secondarily on physical function and quality of life. This randomized, placebo-controlled, single-blinded trial with 12-week follow-up (FU) randomized 63 patients with aLBP 1:1 into two groups receiving either rESWT (intervention) or sham rESWT (placebo) with a manipulated shockwave head not delivering any shockwaves. Both, rESWT and sham procedure were carried out eight times for four weeks. Both groups received additional analgesics and physiotherapy twice a week. Primary patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) was the visual analogue scale for aLBP (VAS-LBP). Secondary PROMs included the Oswestry disability index (ODI), Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire (RDQ), EuroQol EQ-5D-3L, and the Beck Depression Index (BDI-II). Primary endpoint was a between-arm comparison of mean changes in VAS-LBP from baseline to final FU. At randomization, there were no differences between the two groups in relation to age and PROMs. Both groups showed significant improvement in all PROMs at final FU. VAS-LBP declined by 60.7% (

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acuteclinical outcomelow back painradial shockwave therapyrandomized controlled trial (RCT)spine

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PMID34884271
PMCPMC8658438
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