Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy in the Treatment of Bone Disorders: Fracture Nonunions, Delayed Unions, Chronic Stress Fractures and Bone Marrow Edema: A Case Report Series in a Private Practice Setting - Abstract
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is increasingly used as an adjuvant therapy in the management of nonunions, delayed unions, chronic stress fractures, bone marrow edema and more recently fresh fractures. This is in an effort to increase union rates and bone healing or obtain unions when fractures have proven recalcitrant to healing.
We describe 6 cases of fractures, bone marrow edema and stress fractures which were unable to be corrected by conventional conservative care but which we were finally able to heal using extracorporeal shockwave therapy.