Table 1. Examples of studies investigating the effects of focused (fESWs) and radial (rESWs) extracorporeal shock waves on musculoskeletal disorders including tendons in clinical settings, animal models, and fibroblast cultures.

	fESWs	rESWs
Clinical setting	Reviewed in Schmitz et al.4	Reviewed in Schmitz et al.4
Animal models	Reviewed in Visco et al.38	—
Fibroblast culture
Viability	Kaulesar Johannes et al.22Berta et al.25Hausdorf et al.26	—
Growth potential	Kaulesar Johannes et al.22Berta et al.25	—
Gene expression	Berta et al.25 (TFG-β1,collagen type I and III)	—
Growth factor release	Hausdorf et al.26 (FGF-2, TGF-β1)	—
Cell cycle changes	—	—