Fig. 5

Success rate (defined as the relative number of patients with radiographic union confirmed six months post focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy (fESWT)) as a function of the energy flux density (EFD) of individual focused extracorporeal shock waves (fESWs) (a) as well as the total EFD (individual EFD multiplied with the number of applied fESWs per treatment session and the number of treatment sessions) (b) in those 16 clinical studies on fESWT for treating fracture nonunions listed in Table 1 in [3] for which both the EFD of the applied fESWs and the success rate were reported