International Society for Medical Shockwave Treatment (ISMST)

When ISMST society was founded, there were no international cooperations of physicians and researchers dealing with extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT). There were some companies organizing user meetings, and there were groups in some countries, which tried to overcome the differences between the user groups of the companies to improve the scientific exchange. The founders of this society met each other at national and international orthopedic conventions, the interest in the various results of the different colleagues was growing, and so a group of European physicians came together and the European Society for Musculoskeletal Shockwave Therapy (ESMST) was established on 12 September 1997 in Vienna, Austria, following the DGOT Conference.