*Effectiveness of Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous treatment of Lateral Epicondylitis using standardized perforation with application of autologous blood, dextrose or perforation only, in relation to pain and functional recovery; A randomized controlled trial *
- Conditions
- lateral epicondylitistennis elbow10043237
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON47499
- Lead Sponsor
- Amphia Ziekenhuis
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 165
• Patients referred by their GP to the orthopaedic surgeon diagnosed with unilateral Lateral Epicondylitis
• Age between 18 and 70 years
• Unsuccessful conservative treatment
• Able to read and write in Dutch
• Provision of informed consent by patient.
• Prior injection therapy (during this episode of LE), surgery or trauma at the affected elbow
• Inflammatory diseases (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or reactive arthritis)
• Patients with any other elbow pathology
• Neck pain or shoulder pain correlated with elbow pain such as C6 radiculopathy or with disability of the arm or other chronic widespread pain syndromes
• Traumatic onset of LE.
• Bilateral LE (mild cases of LE on the contralateral elbow without functional limitations are allowed).
• Abnormalities on the X-ray.
• Patients with additional pain at the medial epicondyl.
• Allergy for lidocaine
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The main study parameters are the changes in pain using a Visual Analog Scale<br /><br>(VAS, 0-100) (Bodian e.a. 2001) 5 months after treatment:<br /><br>- After provocation test; pain during resisted extension of the wrist during<br /><br>full elbow extension</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method