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Anyone familiar with or had it? Wife has real bad tennis elbow. Went to the doctor and was offered 3 options. Cortisone shots with a 40-50% chance of cure 9insurance paid), surgery with 70-80% cure rate (insurance paid), and shock wave therapy with 80+% cure rate (out of pocket).

She took the shock wave route and had her second treatment today (could take up to 5 but she already has greatly improved) Says it's like 5 minutes of someone using a blunt air chisel on the spot but they wrap it in some kind of algea and oil bandage afterwards that she wears for 2 days.

I was googling to see if it was common in the States and what a treatment costs but didn't find much. Found prices from $200-1000 per treatment.

Her treatments cost 45 euro ($65+/-) each all included.

I guess I'll never understand the big difference in medical costs between here and there. Sure shows up in insurance rates.

Dave
 
Tennis elbow can be a real pain in the a$$. Got a cortizone shot about a year ago and have had very little pain since. Hurt like hell when I got the shot, but worth it.
 

she gets a strap and the doctor poked around on my arm (gets a little tender sometimes) while I was there with her and prescribed her 2 straps so I wouldn't (shouldn't) get the same thing.
 
They have all sorts of good medical treatments in Europe that are unavailable in the USA. I was shocked when my wife P/T guy told us about a treatment she could get in Germany that was unavailable here.
Our medical system is becoming second rate or worse.
 
I believe were getting to be that way because when people do some of these treatments and don"t like the outcome they sue the doctor. My mothers a nurse practitioner and she worries about this a lot.
 
[i:654c4848f0]"I guess I'll never understand the big difference in medical costs between here and there. Sure shows up in insurance rates"[/i:654c4848f0]

33% plus costs. That's what lawyers get. Often comes out to over 50% of what a jury will award. With incentive like that, the litigation costs added to every medical procedure drive the cost thru the roof. Of course the Trial Lawyers Association always makes sure they've bought enough of Congress to keep any tort reform from happening.
 
You have hit the nail on the head, egzactly!
Fear of law-suits! And, folks can sue for anything they might think was done wrong, the outcome didn't keep the patient alive for 100 years, or some other stupid idea, cooked up in the mind of an attorney! Whom we just can't live without!
 
Dave
Doc showed me an exercise about 30 yrs ago that makes the pain go away and keeps it away.
No longer swinging a hammer like back then yet will do the exercise once every couple years just because
Ron
 
when I was in the service, german citizens could buy some drugs over the counter in a drugstore that I would have been jailed for possessing
 
More likely the socialized medical systems in Europe have to experiment with potentially cost-effective treatments in order to keep costs down. There's no motivation in the US medical system to control costs. We pay more than other countries and get less.
 
(quoted from post at 17:41:07 02/16/11) More likely the socialized medical systems in Europe have to experiment with potentially cost-effective treatments in order to keep costs down. There's no motivation in the US medical system to control costs. We pay more than other countries and get less.
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The ones that take advantage of the socialized part (those that don't work) can't take advantage of the out of pocket treatments unless they save up their welfare money and don't spend it on cigaretts and alcohol.
Wifes complete treatment (4 visits) will cost 180 euro which is about what 2 tanks of diesel in her car costs. Cool part, her boss overheard her arguing with her insurance co on the phone about conering the cost of 180 instead of about 1000 for a surgery that would have her off work for 4-6 weeks (Germans have it made when it comes to that). He hung up her phone and told her to get the 180 from petty cash and he'll deal with the insurance company.
 
Had a tennis elbow but, never played it ever...couldn't lift a Pepsi without pain. Got a treatment called radio diatherapy for a few days, probably about 20/30 minutes a day and that took care of it. Put radio waves in elbow joint covered with a towel. All that I felt during treatment was the joint got slightly warm. ohfred
 
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