TY - JOUR T1 - Extracorporeal shock wave therapy in the treatment of inferior calcaneal enthesophytosis: outcome by fan-beam dual <em>x</em> ray absorptiometry (DXA) JF - Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases JO - Ann Rheum Dis SP - 1704 LP - 1705 DO - 10.1136/ard.2003.013755 VL - 63 IS - 12 AU - R Cosentino AU - B Frediani AU - R De Stefano AU - C Acciai AU - S Manca AU - E Selvi AU - E Frati AU - R Marcolongo Y1 - 2004/12/01 UR - http://ard.bmj.com/content/63/12/1704.abstract N2 - Plantar fasciitis with heel spurs is a common cause of heel pain, and is often not sensitive to conservative treatment, including insole supports, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, local steroid injection, and physical therapy.1,2 In patients in whom conservative treatment fails, surgical intervention is recommended.3 Recently, extracorporeal shock wave therapy has been introduced for the alleviation of painful heel and other conditions such as tennis elbow, calcifying tendinopathy of the shoulder, and non-union of fractures of the long bones.4–7 The presence and size of the heel spurs do not correlate with the clinical symptoms.4,8 Twenty patients aged between 40 … ER -