Laurie Barclay, MD Sept. 18, 2002
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is not useful for patients with plantar fasciitis, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial reported in the Sept. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. However, this finding differs from that of a prior study showing that half of patients who received ESWT could walk without pain in six months.
“While all five placebo-controlled trials of ESWT in chronic plantar fasciitis have reported benefit of variable magnitude, methodological limitations may have influenced their outcome,” write Rachelle Buchbinder, MBBS, MSc, from the Cabrini Medical Centre in Malvern, Victoria, Australia, and colleagues
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