Brain, Spine and Nerve

Brain, Spine and Nerve Research

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) in Acute Traumatic Complete (AIS A) and Incomplete (AIS B-D) Cross-sectional Lesions on Motor and Sensory Function Within Six Months After Injury

It has been hypothesized that there are two mechanisms of acute traumatic spinal cord injury...

Shock waves promote spinal cord repair via TLR3

Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a devastating condition with poor prognosis and very limited treatment...

The Use of Shock Waves in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration:New Perspectives?

Low-energy extracorporeal shock wave treatment (ESWT) is a relatively new therapeutic tool that is widely...

Ultrasound and shock-wave stimulation to promote axonal regeneration following nerve surgery

A systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies – Limited regeneration after nerve injury often leads...

Extracorporeal shock wave therapy effectively prevented diabetic neuropathy

We tested the hypothesis that extracorporeal shock wave (ECSW) therapy can effectivelyprotect sciatic nerve (SN)...

Shock Wave Treatment Protects From Neuronal Degeneration via a Toll-Like Receptor 3 Dependent Mechanism: Implications of a First-Ever Causal Treatment for Ischemic Spinal Cord Injury

Background-—Paraplegia following spinal cord ischemia represents a devastating complication of both aortic surgery and endovascular...

Motor and Sensory Schwann Cell Phenotype

The gold standard for peripheral nerve regeneration uses a sensory autograft to bridge a motor/sensory...

Dr. Lohse Bush, first brain treatments

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Low-energy shock wave for enhancing recruitment of endothelial progenitor cells: a new modality to increase efficacy of cell therapy in chronic hind limb ischemia

(Alexandra Aicher, MD; Christopher Heeschen, MD; Ken-ichiro Sasaki, MD; Carmen Urbich, PhD; Andreas M. Zeiher,...

Shockwave therapy differentially stimulates endothelial cells: implications on the control of inflammation via toll-like receptor 3

(Johannes Holfeld, Can Tepeköylü, Radoslaw Kozaryn, Anja Urbschat, Kai Zacharowski, Michael Grimm, and Patrick Paulus)...

Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) for the treatment of spasticity in persons with spinal cord injury

(Swiss Paraplegic Centre Nottwil) – Spasticity is the most problematic self-reported secondary medical problem in patients...

Low energy shock wave therapy induces angiogenesis in acute hind-limb ischemia via VEGF receptor 2 phosphorylation

(University Hospital for Cardiac Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, 2 Division of Clinical and...

The Biologic Effects of SoftWaves™and Rationale for Spine and Brain Therapy

Shock waves are defined as types of acoustic pressure waves that develop during sudden releases...

STORZ MEDICAL’s NEUROLITH® receives CE approval – Transcranial Pulse Stimulation (TPS) on the central nervous system of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

In December 2018, STORZ MEDICAL has received the CE approval for the NEUROLITH®, a new...

Symptomatic treatment of unresponsive wakefulness syndrome with transcranial focused extracorporeal shock waves

(H. Lohse-Busch, U. Reime and R. Falland Outpatient Department for Manual Medicine – Movement Disorder...

Benefits of Spark Wave Therapy in neuronal regeneration

(MTS Science) – Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is widely used in clinical practice. In addition to...

Spark Wave® Therapy – a New Method for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

(MTS Science) – Peripheral nerve injuries affect millions of people every year. After trauma or surgery, patients...

Effects of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy on Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Their Dynamic Balance Ability

(Department of Physical Therapy, Youngdong University) – [Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to...

Effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave for low back pain (A protocol of systematic review)

(Wei Wei, Hua-yu Tang, Yu-zhi Li, Tian-shu Wang) – : Previous clinical trials have reported that...

Extracorporeal shock waves Improve pareses in 8 cases of spinal cord injury and 3 cases of myelomeningocele.

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Extracorporeal shockwave therapy versus exercise program in patients with low back pain: short-term results of a randomised controlled trial.

(Notarnicola, Maccagnano, Gallone, Mastromauro, Rifino, Pesce, Covelli , Moretti B) The physiotherapy treatment of low...

Mechano-transduction effect of shock waves

(Charles University in Prague, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Prague, Czech Republic Center...

Extracorporeal shock wave therapy for the treatment of coccydynia: a series of 23 cases

(Yousef Marwan, • Bashar Dahrab • Ali Esmaeel • Samir Abdulrazik Ibrahim • Jassim Al-Failakawi)...

Extracorporeal shock wave therapy relieved pain in patients with coccydynia: a report of two cases

(Yousef Marwan, MBBS, Wael Husain, MBBS, FRCSC , Waleed Alhajii, MBBS, MSc, Facharztb , Magdy...

The Effects of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Patients with Coccydynia: A Randomized Controlled Trial

(Shih-Feng Lin, Yi-Jen Chen, Hung-Pin Tu , Chia-Ling Lee, Ching-Lin Hsieh , Wen-Lan Wu ,...

Shock wave treatment reduces neuronal degeneration upon spinal cord ischemia and improves symptoms in a first-in-man trial

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The efficacy of ultrasound-guided extracorporeal shockwave therapy in patients with cervical spondylosis and nuchal ligament calcification

(Tz-Yan Lin, Jing-Ting Chen, Yu-Yu Chen, Tien-Wen Chen , Chia-Ling Lee, Chia-Hsin Chen, Mao-Hsiung Huang)...

Prof. M. Kravchik. Focused shockwave therapy in the treatment of the spine. Oxford, UK Non-invasive treatment of herniated discs by focused shock wave therapy

(Non-invasive treatment of herniated discs by focused shockwave therapy) – In orthopedic practice meets a number...

A prospective, randomized, controlled, single centre trial to assess the efficacy and safety of radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain

(Balagué et al., 2012). Non-specific low back pain is common and affects people of all...