Table 1.

SORT graded as per Ebell et al. [8]

Subject	Authors	Symptom duration prior to therapy	Pain free time after therapy	Significant improvement from baseline?	Therapy grade	Consistency
Orthoses					A	Consistent
	Landorf et al. [9]	4 weeks	3 months	Yes
	Winemiller et al. [10]	30 days	4 weeks, 8 weeks	Yes
Stretching					B	Consistent
	DiGiovanni et al. [11]	10 months	8 weeks	Yes
	DiGiovanni et al. [12]	10 months	2 years	Yes
	Radford et al. [13]	4 weeks	2 weeks	No
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy					A	Inconsistent
	Haake et al. [14]	6 months	12 weeks, 1 year	No
	Speed et al. [15]	3 months	6 months	No
	Buchbinder et al. [16]	6 weeks	12 weeks	No
	Kudo et al. [17]	6 months	3 months	Yes
	Ogden et al. [18]	N/A	3 months, 1 year	Yes
BTX-A					B	Consistent
	Babcock et al. [19]	6 months	3 weeks, 8 weeks	Yes
Steroid injection/iontophoresis					A	Consistent
	Crawford et al. [20]	N/A	1 month	Yes
	Gudeman et al. [21]	N/A	2 weeks	Yes

Note: All are Level 1 quality studies