Christian Ottomann, MD,∗ Alexander Stojadinovic, MD, FACS, Philip T. Lavin, PhD, Francis H. Gannon, MD, Michael H. Heggeness, MD, Richard Thiele, MD, Wolfgang Schaden, MD, and Bernd Hartmann, MD As extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) can enhance healing of skin graft donor sites, this study focused on shock wave effects in burn wounds. Click here...Read More

Christian Ottomann, MD, Bernd Hartmann, MD, Josh Tyler, MD, Heike Maier, MD, Richard Thiele, MD,Wolfgang Schaden, MD, Alexander Stojadinovic, MD, FACS – Between January 2006, and September 2007, 28 patients with acute traumatic wounds and burns requiring skin grafting were randomly assigned in a 1:1 fashion to receive standard topical therapy (nonadherent silicone mesh [Mepitel, Mölnlycke...Read More

Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy – ESWT has had a wide use in rehabilitation, and has presented positive effects in the treatment of unaesthetic affections. The objective of the present study was to search, in the literature, the mechanisms of action and the physiological aspects of shockwaves acting on the biological tissue to improve the condition of...Read More

The aim of this meta analysis was to investigate the effectiveness of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) in cellulite. Methods: Electronic databases (such as Ovid MEDLINE, Scopus and Ovid) as well as reference lists of the available studies were evaluated in June 2015 by two expert examiners. Assessment of each study’s methodological quality was performed...Read More

Karsten Knobloch • Beatrice Joest • Robert Kra ̈mer • Peter M. Vogt​ – Focused extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has been demonstrated to improve wound healing and skin regeneration such as in burn wounds and scars. We hypothesized that the combination of focused ESWT and a daily gluteal muscle strength program is superior to SHAM-ESWT and gluteal...Read More

Preliminary results – (Caritas-Krankenhaus St. Josef, Klinik f ü r Plastische und Ä sthetische, Hand- und Wiederherstellungs-Chirurgie, Regensburg, Germany and Universit ä tsklinikum Regensburg, Funktionsbereich Plastische- Hand- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Regensburg, Germany) Extracorporeal shock wave therapy has undergone continuous development and has become a well-established therapy option both in urology and in orthopaedics/trauma surgery. Experimental and clinical...Read More

Department of Physical Therapy for Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt – Post-mastectomy lymphedema is a chronic, debilitating disorder that is frequently misdiagnosed, treated too late or not treated at all, Lymphedema (LE) is an abnormal accumulation of protein-rich fluid in the interstitium leading...Read More

Thayná Melo de Lima Morais, Patrícia Froes Meyer, Liliane Santos de Vasconcellos, Julio Costa e Silva, Ito Ferreira e Andrade, Vinicius Alves Freire de Farias, Igor Candido da Silva, Roberta Marinho Falcão Gondim Araújo, Rodrigo Marcel Valentim da Silva, Esteban Fortuny Pacheco, Ciro Dantas Soares – Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been extensively studied for its multiple biological properties, and although it iswidely applied in...Read More

In this prospective design study the effects of low-energy partially focusedextracorporeal generated shock waves (ESW) onto a subcutaneous located varicose vein – leftvena saphena magna (VSM) – are investigated. The treatment consisted of 4 ESW applicationswithin 21 days. The varicose VSM of both sides were removed by surgery, and samples analyzedcomparing the treated and untreated...Read More

Nowadays, the search for the ideal body is related to internal dissatisfactions that generate low self-esteem. In the last decades the body was undervalued; today, it is overvalued and has become a valuable good [1]. For that reason, the search for invasive or noninvasive treatments in esthetic medicine has been increasing alarmingly [1, 2]. One...Read More