Low dose Radiotherapy (LDRT) in benign diseases

Low-dose Radiotherapy (LDRT) is a therapeutic tool to treat all inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the joints and soft tissues.

LDRT is an additional or alternative treatment to other options such as surgery, physiotherapy, or painkillers, primarily if these have not led to the desired success.

LDRT has only a localized effect without causing any damage to the surrounding tissues. The treatment is very well tolerated and pain-free for all patients.

Indications

Analgesic & anti-inflammatory intention (Pain Management)

Arthritis
Shoulder (Frozen shoulder)
Elbow
Wrist
- Hand
- Thumb Rhizarthrosis,
- Finger/Heberden’s, Bouchard’s nodes)
Hip
Knee
Ankle
Tendinitis
Shoulder
Elbow (“tennis elbow”, “golf elbow”)
Synovitis & Bursitis
Calcaneodynia (heel spurs)

Anti-proliferative intention (local control)

Aggressive Fibromatosis
- Dupuytren’s disease
- Ledderhose disease
Keloid Scars
Endocrine Orbitopathy (Graves’ disease)
Gynecomastia (breast growth in men, e.g. under hormone therapy)
Symptomatic vertebral hemangiomas
Post-surgical/catheter fistulas

Patient selection

Low-dose Radiotherapy (LDRT) is a therapeutic tool to treat all inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the joints and soft tissues. LDRT is an additional or alternative treatment to other options such as surgery, physiotherapy, or painkillers, mainly if these have not led to the desired success. LDRT has only a localized effect without causing any damage to the surrounding tissues. The treatment is very well tolerated and pain-free for all patients.

Consultation

A low-dose radiotherapy is a therapeutic tool for treating all inflammatory and degenerative diseases of the joints and soft tissues. Although low-dose radiotherapy cannot change the degeneration or repair the tear, it treats the local inflammation, decreases the local pain, and improves the quality of life. This kind of treatment has been used with excellent success for decades.
Risks
Low-dose radiotherapy to treat benign conditions did not show any long-term side effects or local damage.

Treatment delivery

Usually, the treatment course consists of 6 sessions, which are delivered twice weekly. The treatment time lasts only a few seconds. Radiotherapy is painless, non-invasive, and similar to diagnostic x-ray procedures. In case of partial or incomplete response, a 2nd course of low-dose radiotherapy can be delivered 6 weeks after completing the 1st course in order to achieve a full response.
Results
A response of 60-90% was observed immediately after completing the radiotherapy course and no later than 3 months.