Effectiveness of the "Tecaretherapy" in Patients With Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy

University of Liege

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Tendinopathy

Treatments: Other: CPT; Other: Active Tecaretherapy; Other: Inactive Tecaretherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03939247

TECARE

Details and patient eligibility

About

This RCT aims at investigating the effectiveness of the "Tecaretherapy" in patients with lateral elbow tendinopathy.

60 patients will be randomized into one of the following 3 groups:

• "Conventional physiotherapy treatment (CPT)" (massage, eccentric exercises, stretching);
• "CPT + Tecare" (idem CPT group + tecaretherapy during the eccentric exercises)
• "CPT + Placebo Tecare" (idem "CPT + Tecare" group but with an inactive Tecare device) The treatment will include 18 30-minute sessions

Full description

This RCT aims at investigating the effectiveness of the "Tecaretherapy" in patients with lateral elbow tendinopathy.

60 patients will be randomized into one of the following 3 groups:

• "Conventional physiotherapy treatment (CPT)" (massage, eccentric exercises by means of an isokinetic dynamometer, stretching);
• "CPT + Tecare" (idem CPT group + Tecaretherapy during the eccentric exercises)
• "CPT + Placebo Tecare" (idem "CPT + Tecare" group but with an inactive "Tecare" device) The treatment will include 18 30-minute sessions.

The "Tecaretherapy" consists in using a specific device providing high frequencies (between 300 kHz and 1 MHz) supposed to accelerate the tissues healing process.

Outcome sessions will be organized at baseline, after the first 9 sessions, at the end of the treatment as well as 3 and 6 months after the initial treatment session.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient suffering from a chronic lateral elbow tendinopathy confirmed by echography

Exclusion criteria

Patients:

• with contra-indications for a Tecaretherapy (Pace maker, insuline pump, pregnancy, infection, fever, cancer, thrombophlebitis)
• reporting injections and/or shockwaves in the past (for the tendinopathy)
• with an associated neurogenic dysfunction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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17 participants in 3 patient groups

"Conventional PT treatment (CPT)"

Other group

Description:

All treatment sessions include massage, eccentric exercises by means of an isokinetic dynamometer and stretching;

Treatment:

Other: CPT

"CPT + Tecare"

Experimental group

Description:

All treatment sessions include massage, eccentric exercises by means of an isokinetic dynamometer and stretching (idem CPT group). However, an active Tecaretherapy is also provided during the sessions

Treatment:

Other: Active Tecaretherapy

Other: CPT

"CPT + Placebo Tecare"

Sham Comparator group

Description:

All treatment sessions include massage, eccentric exercises by means of an isokinetic dynamometer and stretching (idem CPT group). However, an inactive Tecaretherapy is also provided during the sessions

Treatment:

Other: Inactive Tecaretherapy

Other: CPT