HIL versus HIL & RSWT: Pain and Patient Satisfaction Evaluation of 100 Patients

Stefan Guiloff Paradiz, Leonardo Guiloff Waissbluth, Manuel Brañes Aroca
Clinica Arauco Salud
SANTIAGO, CHILE

In this study we wish to judge a hundred patients with chronic sinew and bone pathologies treated with one or each therapies.

Methods:

91 patients were treated with HIL and nine with HIL and RSWT. we tend to valuate pain and patient satisfaction prospectively once five sessions HIL. a similar parameters were assessed in patients with combined medical aid once five sessions HIL and three sessions RSWT.

Study results:

Pain relief average was sixty eight.6% and patient satisfaction average eighty nine.8% in patients treated solely with HIL. Pain relief was forty first and patient satisfaction eighty five.7% in combined treatment.

Discussion:

This is a preliminary clinical study to judge solely subjective parameters, while not excluding different therapies that patients were doing once they started these treatments. we tend to didn't separate pathologies one by one, thus with these findings we are able to solely have a general vision of the employment of those therapies. we want another objective analysis (clinical and histhological), with management cluster, additionally animal analysis, to verify these findings.

Conclusion:

We conclude that each therapies were useful in pain relief and conjointly patient satisfaction. additional studies are necessary, separating by pathologies, as well as samples for histologic study in tissues treated with one or each techniques, that has got to be analysed within the laboratory, to verify these results.

Source:

18th International Congress of the International Society for Medical Shockwave Treatment, 2015