Extracorporeal shock wave therapy in orthopedics and traumatology is still a young therapy method. Since the last few years the development of shock wave therapy has progressed rapidly. Shock waves have changed the treatment of urolithiasis substantially. Today shock waves are the first choice to treat kidney and urethral stones. Urology has long been the only medical field for shock waves in medicine. Meanwhile shock waves have been used in orthopedics and traumatology to treat insertion tendinitis, avascular necrosis of the head of femur and other necrotic bone alterations. Another field of shock wave application is the treatment of tendons, ligaments and bones on horses in veterinary medicine. In the present paper we discuss the basic theory and application of shock waves and its history in medicine. The idea behind using shock wave therapy for orthopedic diseases is the stimulation of healing in tendons, surrounding tissue and bones.

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An effort has been made for obtaining higher-order elastic constants for MgO starting from basic parameters, viz. nearest-neighbor distance and hardness parameter using Coulomb and Börn-Mayer potentials. These are calculated in a wide temperature range (100-1000 K) and compared with available theoretical and experimental results.

Anharmonic properties of 16 alkali halides and 4 alkali cyanides are investigated using long-range Coulomb and short-range Born-Mayer potentials starting from the nearest-neighbour distance and repulsive parameter. This study includes the prediction of second, third and fourth order elastic constants, the pressure derivatives of second and third order elastic constants and partial contractions at elevated temperatures. The results obtained in present investigations are in reasonable agreement compared with experimental studies.

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