title: Bone healing induced by ESWT.
abstract: It has been at least two decades since the introduction of Extracorporeal Shock-Wave Treatment (ESWT) for the treatment of non-unions; despite conflicting opinions in the literature, it is recently achieving good results also in acute fractures. This paper reports Authors' clinical experience with electromagnetic shock-waves in the treatment of delayed unions and fresh fractures. Nonunion cases experienced remarkable successful results at an average of 8-10 weeks after ESWT; high success rate is been also found for the acute fractures. It can be concluded that this therapy constitutes an important aid in treatment of non-unions and can be useful also in fresh bone fractures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Methodology and Surgical Technique, Orthopaedics Section, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: Biagio
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Notarnicola
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Silvio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patella
authors.forename: Ilaria
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tatò
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patella