Table 5.

Effect of cardiac shock wave therapy on the parameters of exercise capacity

Study (year)	Study type	Number of patients who underwent CSWT	Value before CSWT	Value after CSWT	Measurement unit
Caspari G.H. et al. (1999) [19]	Single arm	9	58±18	111±18	Wt
Gutersohn A. et al. (2005) [52]	Single arm	14	70±15.3	100±16.8	Wt
Lyadov K. et al. (2006) [55]	Single arm	13	11.9±2.2	14.1±2.8	VO2 ml/kg/min
Fukumoto Y. et al. (2006) [54]	Single arm	9	3.9±1.9	5±1.7	Met
Schmid J.P. et al. (2006) [75]	Randomized, Placebo controlled	7	98±27	115±15	Wt
Naber C. et al. (2008) [58]a	Single arm	24	66.6±33.3	95.8±24.5	Wt
Faber L. et al. (2010) [60]	Single arm	16	80±45	90±39	Wt
Vainer J. et al. (2010) [61]	Single arm	22	7.8±4	8.5±3	Minutes
Kikuchi Y. Et al. (2010) [31]	Placebo controlled	8	44.7±16.2	50.5±16.2	Wt
Vainer J. et al. (2012) [63]	Single arm	50	8.2±3.2	9.6±3.8	Minutes
Kazmi W.H. et al. (2012) [71]	Controlled	43	12.2±7.8	20.1±15.7	Minutes
Yang P. et al. (2012) [79]	Randomized, Placebo controlled	25	339.44±83.3	427.9±63.3	Meters
Wang Y. et al. (2012) [24]b	Randomized, controlled	31	344.3±106.4	434.3±99.7	Meters
Schmid J.P. et al. (2013) [78]	Randomized, Placebo controlled	11	91.2±29.1	94.1±35.2	Wt
Prinz C. et al. (2013) [66]	Single arm	43	78±53	90±46	Wt
Cassar A. et al. (2014) [27]	Single arm	15	319.8±157.2	422.1±183.3	Seconds
Zhao L. et al. (2015) [74]b	Randomized, controlled	32	343.9±85.0	489.4±72.2	Seconds
Prasad M. et al. (2015) [68]	Single arm	111	252.1±51.6c	313.5±164.3	Seconds
			457.0±146.8d	606.0±126.4
Kaller M. et al. (2015) [49]	Single arm	16	93±44	101±41	Wt
Cai HY. et al. (2015) [30]	Single arm	26	360.7±116.8	434.2±86.3	Meters
Nirala S. et al. (2016) [73]	Controlled	41	336.7±120.5	445.8±172.4	Meters
Vainer J. et al. (2016) [70]	Single arm	33	7.4±2.8	8.8±3.6	Minutes

All valuables presented as mean ± SD, ^avaluable presented as mean ± SE, SE calculated into SD using standard formulas; ^bgroup with standard CSWT protocol, ^cBruce protocol, ^dmodified Bruce protocol