Overview

Treatment of Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy

Status:
Completed

Trial end date:
2020-04-05

Target enrollment:
0

Participant gender:
All

Summary

This study investigates the treatment effect on lateral elbow tendinopathy of strength training in combination with cortico-steroid injection, dry-needling or placebo in a double-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Phase:

N/A

Accepts Healthy Volunteers?

Details

Lead Sponsor:

Bispebjerg Hospital

Treatments:

Methylprednisolone
Methylprednisolone Acetate
Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate
Prednisolone
Prednisolone acetate
Prednisolone hemisuccinate
Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Pain around the lateral part of the elbow joint for more than 4 weeks.

2. Pain on palpation of the proximal part of the common extensor tendon.

3. Pain reproduced with resisted dorsiflexion of the wrist.

4. Dash score > 30.

5. Ultrasonographic appearance consistent with lateral elbow tendinopathy (irregular
appearance of the tendon, hypo-/hyper-echoic changes, pathological doppler signal,
increased tendon thickness).

Exclusion Criteria:

- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) > 2 (mild systemic disease).

- Patients with symptoms consistent with differential diagnoses such as:

- referred pain,

- radiohumeral synovitis and bursitis,

- posterior interosseous nerve entrapment (radial tunnel syndrome),

- osteoarthritis of the elbow, and

- prior injections or acupuncture around the elbow joint within the last 6 months