The treatment of calcific tendonpathie of shoulder with E.D.T.A. bisodic salt by mesotherapy

The Authors treated at the Physioterapy Service of the Clinic Orthopedic in Parma, 31 patients affected by shoulder's calcific tendonpathie by mesotherapy. The above mentioned patients were treated with E.D.T.A. bisodium salt. they were painful and showed funtional restriction besides they all shared a crystal's hydroxyapatite deposition. It was considered the pain by the Scott-Huskisson analogous-visual scale and the radiographic variation of calcification. It was noticed that with minimun pharmacological doses satisfying therapeuthical results were achieved. That was not only as far as pain was concerned (disappeared in 29 patients (93.5%), but it was also obtained a significant reduction (4 patients 13%) or in some cases the disappearing of calcifications (25 patients 80%).