title: Adult osteochondritis dissecans and focussed ESWT: A successful treatment option.
abstract: Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has gained acceptance in the medical field and in the treatment of non-unions and delayed bone healing. ESWT has been used effectively for many years as a noninvasive surgical procedure. The idea of treating Osteochondritis dissecans of knee and talus arose in the middle of the 1990's. OCD is known as a pre-arthritic factor in the long-term and still there is no consistent treatment. In the literature there is still only a small number of publications but international societies for shockwave treatment are convinced that ESWT on OCD shows to be an effective and safe method in the treatment of OCD in the early stages. We want to summarize the actual data on the treatment of OCD by ESWT.
authors.affiliation: IZS - Berlin, Internationales Stoßwellenzentrum Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 61, D-10707 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: SergejThiele@web.de.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thiele
authors.affiliation: IZS - Berlin, Internationales Stoßwellenzentrum Berlin, Kurfürstendamm 61, D-10707 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Thiele
authors.affiliation: Dept Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, University Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold Heller Strasse, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gerdesmeyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019220:High-Energy Shock Waves / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010008:Osteochondritis Dissecans / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: ESWT; Focussed shockwave; Noninvasive surgical procedure; OCD; Osteochondritis dissecans; Shockwave therapy