Author: Di Giorno Alfonso [1]
[1] Scientific Director of Di Giorno Rehabilitation Medical Centers, Focused Shockwave Specialist.

Address of Correspondence
Dr. Di Giorno Alfonso, MD
Scientific Director of Di Giorno Rehabilitation Medical Centers, Focused Shockwave Specialist
E-mail: a.digiorno@ckf-digiorno.com

Editorial:

“FST Focused Shockwave Therapy” is a congress created to communicate the results of one of the largest Italian studies on focused shockwave therapy, carried out with the aim of evaluating the effectiveness of the aforementioned therapy in non-unions and myotendinous pathologies affecting shoulder, elbow, and hip regions.

Studies were made available by the Di Giorno Medical Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Centers, an Italian national benchmark for focused shock wave therapy with over 35 years of experience, and 50,000 cases treated. This project was possible with the collaboration of the Orthopedic Specialty Schools of Unimore, UniRoma1 Sapienza, UniRoma2 Tor Vergata, and the Magna Graecia University of Calabria.

The Congress will open with greetings from the from the Honorary President of the Congress Prof. Giorgio De Santis, Honorary Citizen of Cosenza and Full Professor of Plastic Surgery and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of UniMoRe and from the President Giorgo Gasparini, Full Professor of Orthopedics, and Traumatology and Director of the School of Specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology of the University of Magna Graecia in Catanzaro.