ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences
Comparison of pain relief and limb function improvement after extracorporeal shock wave therapy and thermomagnetic therapy in the treatment of low back pain.
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- Efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave therapy combined with conventional physical therapy for chronic low back pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy for the treatment of low back pain: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Digital delivery of the GDS method for chronic lumbosacral discogenic pain: A pilot study aligning Sustainable development Goals three and four.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2026Article
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in Pain Management - an In-Depth Narrative Review.Orthopedic reviews · 2026Article
- Effects of radial extracorporeal shock wave with different frequencies on acute skeletal muscle injury in rabbits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: To compare the rehabilitation effects of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and thermomagnetic therapy (TMT) in patients with low back pain (LBP). Methods: As a single-centre retrospective observational study, clinical data of patients with LBP who received rehabilitation treatment in our hospital from January 2020 to May 2021 were retrospectively collected. Based on the treatment mode, the patients were retrospectively divided into two groups: the control group (patients received core muscle training + TMT, n=51) and the observation group (patients received core muscle training + ESWT, n=56). The general data of the patients were collected and the groups were matched for age, gender and pain duration. The visual analogue scale (VAS) score of pain, improvement of limb function, β-endorphin (β-EP), prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and nitric oxide (NO) were compared between the two groups before and after treatment. Results: The VAS scores of the observation group were lower than those of the control group at one, two weeks and one month after the treatment ( Conclusions: A combination of core muscle training and ESWT can effectively improve the analgesic effect of the treatment and promote greater improvement of limb function in patients with LBP.
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