Abstract:Extracorporeal shock wave therapy appeared in the 1980s, and it first used in Germany to therapy urinary calculi with high energy shock wave. Along with the deepening of the basic research and clinical widely used , shock wave was found that it can accelerate fracture healing, relieve pain, alleviate inflammation, enhance tissue regeneration, and because it has the curative effect, noninvasion and high security, shock wave treatment gradually cause the attention of the experts, and regard it as the intervention measure to start a large amount of experimental researches. This article aims to summarize the basic researches about shock wave therapy in recent years, then, expound the research progress of its therapeutic effect.