Issues Related to the Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for the Management of Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

1. From past to future: bibliometric perspective of international research activity on lateral epicondylitis.Frontiers in surgery · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave therapy and nutraceutical supplementation in the treatment of lateral epicondylitis: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025
   Article
3. Radial or Focal Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy: A Real-Life Retrospective Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract