ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Recent Advances in Shockwave Therapy for Musculoskeletal and Soft-Tissue Disorders.
Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comparison of the efficacy of different types and intensities of extracorporeal shock wave therapy for lateral epicondylitis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2026Pooled it
- Application of extracorporeal shock wave therapy in pain management: a bibliometric analysis of current advances and trends.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- [Soft tissue engineering in orthopedics : Regenerative synergistic effects of shockwave therapy, PRP, EMTT, and hyaluronic acid].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Soft tissue mechanosensing and remodeling: the core regulatory role of Piezo/TRPV4 ion channels.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026Review
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) represents a form of "mechanotherapy" that operates by delivering acoustic waves to biological tissues [...].
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Registered trials
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