Eccentric Exercise or Radiofrequent Microtenotomy as Treatment of Lateral Epicondylalgia
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT02304952
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The aim is to study the effects related to function and pain during eccentric exercise and surgery with radiofrequency microtenotomy as post-surgical rehabilitation, compared with only eccentric exercise, in patients with lateral epicondylalgia unilaterally.
Study details
- Official title
- Eccentric Exercise or Radiofrequent Microtenotomy as Treatment of Chronic Lateral Epicondylalgia - a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Tennis Elbow
- Interventions
- Procedure: Radiofrequency microtenotomy
- Other: Eccentric exercise
- Device: Arthrocare Topaz MicroDebrider
- Sponsor
- St Goran's Hospital
- Collaborators
- Karolinska Institutet
- Start date
- 2014-09
- Primary completion
- 2018-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Sweden
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * over the age of 18 and under the age of 70 year * lateral epicondylalgia at least two year * tried conservative treatment Exclusion Criteria: * complicated systemic diseases (such as diabetes) * understand spoken and or/written instructions in Swedish
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02304952