Extracorporeal Shock Waves in Orthopaedics

I General Overview.- 1 Review.- 2 Shock Wave Technology.- II Animal Experiments and Clinical Experiences in Shock Wave Treatment of the Bone.- 3 Effect of Extracorporeal Shock Waves on Bone: A Review of Shock Wave Experiments and the Mechanism of Shock Wave Action.- 4 The Influence of Shock Waves on Epiphysial Growth Plates: First Results of an In-vivo Study with Rabbits.- 5 Osteorestoration via Shock Wave Application. A new Possibility of Treating Disturbed Bone Union.- 6 Extracorporeal Shock Waves in the Treatment of Pseud-arthrosis, Tendinosis Calcarea of the Shoulder, and Calcaneal Spur.- 7 Clinical Experience with Shock Wave Therapy of Pseud-arthrosis, Delayed Fracture Healing, and Cement-Free Endoprosthesis Loosening.- 8 Results with Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Bone and Soft Tissue Pathologies.- III The Application of Shock Wave Therapy in Tendopathies and Tendinosis Calcarea.- 9 The Orthopaedic Shock Wave Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Insertion Tendopathy and Tendinosis Calcarea.- 10 Ultrasound-guided Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy of Tendinosis Calcarea of the Shoulder, of Symptomatic Plantar Calcaneal Spur (Heel Spur) and of Epicondylopathia Radialis et Ulnaris.- 11 Course Observations after Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) in Cases of Pain in the Locomotor System with Circumscribed Localization.- 12 The German Extracorporeal Shock Wave Society (DGST).- 13 Therapy-Resistant Insertion Tendinosis: Indication for Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy or Surgery?.- IV Further Fields of Application.- 14 The Use of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Fronts for Treatment of Muscle Dysfunction of Various Etiologies: An Overview of First Results.- 15 Treatment of Neuromuscular Dysfunction in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Extracorporeal Unfocused Shock Waves.