PLT and Steroid in Lateral Epicondylopathy and Supraspinatus Calcific Tendinopathy

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-04-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

PLT vs. steroid vs. PLT + steroid, which treatment is most effective in lateral epicondylitis (or tennis elbow) and supraspinatus calcific tendinitis.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Treatments: Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Lateral epicondylitis

Inclusion Criteria:

• Tenderness at lateral epicondyle more than 3 months

• Ultrasound-confirmed lateral epicondylopathy

• Pain VAS ≥ 3/10 during wrist resistive extension

• No treatment response to NSAID and physiotherapy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Carpal tunnel syndrome (the same arm) in one year

• Cervical radiculopathy

• Taking NSAID in one week

• Receiving PRP or steroid injection in one month

• History of bacteremia, cellulitis or skin ulcer in three months

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Malignancy

• Poorly controlled DM, liver and kidner diseases

• Severe anemia (Hb<5)

• Thombocytopenia

• History of tennis elbow surgery

• History of elbow trauma

Supraspinatus calcific tendinis

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hawkins-Kennedy test or empty can test, one of which is positive

• Ultrasound-confirmed (calcification > 2mm)

• Pain VAS ≥ 3/10 over right deltoid area more than 3 months

• No treatment response to NSAID and physiotherapy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or lactation

• Carpal tunnel syndrome (the same arm) in one year

• Cervical radiculopathy

• Taking NSAID in one week

• Receiving PRP or steroid injection in one month

• History of bacteremia, cellulitis or skin ulcer in three months

• Rheumatoid arthritis

• Malignancy

• Poorly controlled DM, liver and kidner diseases

• Severe anemia (Hb<5)

• Thombocytopenia

• History of shoulder surgery

• History of shoulder trauma