To compare the short and long term effectiveness of a specific physiotherapy programme and corticosteroid injection in the management of people with gluteal muscle tendinopathy.

Professor Bill Vicenzino0 sites201 target enrollmentStarted: October 22, 2012Last updated: January 13, 2020

Conditions

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•Subjects will be included in the study if they experience lateral hip pain, worst over the area of the greater trochanter, which has been present for a minimum of three months. There should be tenderness on palpation of the greater trochanter and reproduction of lateral hip pain on at least one of 5 diagnostic clinical tests, as well as demonstrated tendon pathology on MRI.

•Subjects will be excluded if they have any significant groin pain or known hip joint pathology, significant lower back pain, or known lumbar pathology, previous surgery to the back or hips, any other lower limb pathology that may impact on their ability to participate in an exercise programme, any systemic diseases affecting the muscular or nervous system, any systemic inflammatory diseases, presence of tumour, any factors that would preclude them from having an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (e.g., pregnancy, pacemaker, claustrophobia), previous cortisone injection around the greater trochanter (lateral hip) in the last 12 months, or physiotherapy intervention for lateral hip pain in the last 3 months, any allergy to corticosteroids, any phobia of needles, and obesity (BMI>30).

Sponsor

Professor Bill Vicenzino