Ultrasonographic evaluation at 6-month follow-up of plantar fasciitis after extracorporeal shock wave therapy

Hammer, Dietrich S.; Adam, Frank; Kreutz, Andreas; Rupp, S.; Kohn, Dieter; Seil, Romain

doi:10.1007/s00402-003-0591-z

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“…Many treatment regimens exist but effectiveness is variable [8,52,55,63]. Multiple publications focused on the evaluation of a clinically relevant effect of shock wave application on plantar heel pain, either of high-energy extracorporeal shock wave treatment (ESWT), applied in a single session with local or regional anesthesia [3,6,9,28,35,36,38,59] or of lowenergy ESWT, applied repetitively without local anesthesia [1, 4,7,11,[20][21][22][23]27,[44][45][46]48,51].…”

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Repetitive low‐energy shock wave application without local anesthesia is more efficient than repetitive low‐energy shock wave application with local anesthesia in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis

Rompe

Meurer

Nafe

et al. 2005

Journal Orthopaedic Research

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Background: It remains unclear whether application of local anesthesia (LA) interferes with clinical efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) for chronic plantar fasciitis.Aims: To evaluate the effect of local anesthesia on the clinical outcome after repetitive low-energy ESWT for chronic plantar fasciitis.Methods: Eighty-six patients with chronic plantar fasciitis were randomly assigned to receive either low-energy ESWT without

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Repetitive low‐energy shock wave application without local anesthesia is more efficient than repetitive low‐energy shock wave application with local anesthesia in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis

Rompe

Meurer

Nafe

et al. 2005

Journal Orthopaedic Research

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“…Several reports have demonstrated the effectiveness of palpation-guided or ultrasound (US)-guided steroid injection [2,8]. A number of studies have also reported highly positive results for ESWT with or without US guidance in treating plantar fasciitis [7,9]. High-resolution US (HRUS) is very reliable in the diagnosis of IPF, with a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 88.5% compared with the reference standard, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [5].…”

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Role of high-resolution ultrasound in guiding treatment of idiopathic plantar fasciitis with minimally invasive techniques

Sorrentino

Iovane

A³

et al. 2008

radiol med

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“…With the help of ultrasonograph they measured the plantar fasciitis' thickness of 2 cm distal to the tuberosity of the calcaneus before the therapy, 6, 12 and 24 weeks after the therapy, and compared them with the plantar fasciitis of a healthy foot. It turned out that 6 weeks after the shock wave therapy the plantar fasciitis thickness of the ill foot and its pain significantly decreased, that caused the locomotion improvement [6].In their next research Lizis and Hudakova compared the shock waves' and the ultrasound waves' influences on the improvement of the feet health status of the patients with calcaneal spur, whose heel spur pain lasted longer than 6 months. The patients treated with shock waves got the altogether dose of 7000 impulses of shock waves, energy flux density 0.4 ml/mm 2 during 5 treatments performed once a week for 5 weeks.…”

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Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy and Ultrasound Waves Effectively Reduce Symptoms of Chronic Calcaneal Spur

Lizis¹,

Kobza²,

Mańko³

et al. 2017

Clin Res Foot Ankle

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Calcaneal spur occurs when calcium deposits build up on the underside of the heel bone, the process that usually continues for many months. Chronic calcaneal spur is a vested disease commonly appearing in adults and it leads to the inflammatory of the plantar fasciitis, disability and as a result to the limitation of social and professional activities. Among main causes of the plantar fasciitis, there are: an inflammation of the Achilles tendon bursitis, fatigue fractures of the calcaneal tuberosity, obesity, running and jumping, work in a standing position, lifting heavy objects, flat feet, rheumatic changes. The treatment of calcaneal spur is primarily conservative, it includes kinesiotherapy, orthoses, corticosteroid therapy, and electrotherapy, but their efficacy remains controversial. Surgery is also a line of treatment, however different (more invasive) from a conservative treatment in people suffering from calcaneal spur. Despite on this, in this publication we don't compare which treatment line is more effective for the symptoms of calcaneal spur, because the goal of this study was to compare the efficacy of the extracorporeal shock wave therapy and ultrasound waves in reducing the painful symptoms in people with calcaneal spur. Numerous studies show, that electrotherapy, such as ultrasound waves and extracorporeal shock wave therapy are used on pain in patients suffering from calcaneal spur.Boerner et al., compared the analgesic efficacy of the 0.8 W/cm 2 and 1.2 W/cm 2 doses during 10 ultrasound wave treatments performed 5 times a week. The results showed that a less dose decreased the pain in the patients with calcaneal spur [1]. Lizis and Husar also confirmed the analgesic efficacy of the 0.8 W/cm 2 dose after 10 ultrasound wave treatments performed 5 times a week, because a very significant decrease of pain remained for 6 weeks after the treatment [2].Zanon et al. evaluated the analgesic efficacy of the 2 W/cm 2 dose for 15 treatments performed three times a week. It turned out that the ultrasound wave topical application of high power did not decrease the pain in chronic plantar fasciitis inflammation associated with calcaneal spur [3]. The cited authors studies' results showed that the patients had better reactions to less doses of ultrasound wave, because of the patients' effective decrease of pain and their faster taking normal daily activities.The researchers also explored the analgesic efficacy of shock wave therapy in calcaneal spur associated with plantar fasciitis. Gerdesmeyer et al., treated chronic (as it lasted longer than 3 months) plantar fasciitis with shock wave therapy. The patients altogether got 6000 impulses of shock waves, energy flux density 0.16 ml/mm 2 during 3 treatments, once a week. The after treatments' results showed that as pain as plantar fasciitis subsided [4]. Yalcin et al. studied the shock waves' influence on pain and the calcaneal spur size which was evaluated on the basis of X-ray made before and after the treatment. For this purpose the patients altogether got 1...

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Ultrasonographic evaluation at 6-month follow-up of plantar fasciitis after extracorporeal shock wave therapy

Abstract: After ESWT, the thickness of the plantar fascia in patients with plantar fasciitis decreased, pain and walking time improved (all significantly).

Cited by 64 publications

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Repetitive low‐energy shock wave application without local anesthesia is more efficient than repetitive low‐energy shock wave application with local anesthesia in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis

Repetitive low‐energy shock wave application without local anesthesia is more efficient than repetitive low‐energy shock wave application with local anesthesia in the treatment of chronic plantar fasciitis

Role of high-resolution ultrasound in guiding treatment of idiopathic plantar fasciitis with minimally invasive techniques

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy and Ultrasound Waves Effectively Reduce Symptoms of Chronic Calcaneal Spur

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