Does exercise help greater trochanter pain syndrome?
- Conditions
- Greater trochanter pain syndromeMusculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN33399646
- Lead Sponsor
- Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Stopped
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 48
1. Aged 35-70 years
2. Unilateral or bilateral trochanteric pain for greater than 3 months
3. Pain on walking and climbing slopes or stairs and/or lying on the affected side
4. Absence of groin pain
5. Tenderness on palpation of the greater trochanter
6. At least one of the following tests provocative of lateral hip pain: Combined hip flexion, abduction and external rotation (FABER); Active derotation test; Combined hip flexion, adduction and external rotation; Modified Ober test; 30 second single leg stance; Active hip abduction at end range adduction in side lying
7. Hip osteoarthritis excluded radiologically
1. Evidence of osteoarthritis on X-ray (over grade 1)
2. Previous lower limb surgery affecting gait
3. Arthroplasty of the affected hip
4. Other neuromuscular or musculoskeletal conditions affecting gait or ability to exercise
5. Corticosteroid injections/physiotherapy/extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ECSWT) for GTPS in the last 3 months
6. Range of hip flexion <90 degrees
7. Significant lumbar pathology/pain
8. Previous lumbar nerve root entrapment or spinal surgery
9. Unable or unwilling to comply with study protocol
10. Unable or unwilling to offer written consent to the study
11. Unable to understand written or spoken English
12. Adverse reaction to steroid
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in GTPS-related disability assessed using VISA-G questionnaire score at 3 and 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Change in quality of life assessed using EQ-5D questionnaire at 3 and 12 months<br> 2. Change in musculoskeletal symptoms and quality of life assessed using MSK-HQ questionnaire at 3 and 12 months<br> 3. Self-reported assessment of activity level assessed using UCLA questionnaire (Zahiri et al., 1998) scores at 3 and 12 months<br>