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Efficiency of shock wave therapy in patients with “tennis elbow” - preliminary study

(Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej, 2013) Jakubów, Piotr ; Kuryliszyn-Moskal, Anna ; Przegalińsk, Marcin ; Dakowicz, Agnieszka ; Konarzewski, Paweł ; Niewiński, Andrzej ; Snarska, Katarzyna Krystyna ; Ślifirczyk, Anna

The increase in the number of patients with chronic pain of lateral elbow region (“tennis elbow”) has been observed in recent years. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficiency of extracorporeal shock wave therapy in treatment of patients with “tennis elbow”. The examination embraced 10 patients with recognized “tennis elbow” who underwent clinical evaluation including the level of pain intensity according to visual analogue scale (VAS), functional tests and Mayo Elbow Performance Score (MEPS). Conducted examinations proved that application of shock wave therapy leads to the reduction of pain estimated by VAS, improvement of functional tests results and progress in efficiency of elbow joint estimated by MEPS. Basing on conducted examinations, it may be stated that application of extracorporeal shock wave therapy is an effective, non-invasive method of treatment of pain connected with “tennis elbow”.