Effects of Eccentric Training for Patients With Lateral Epicondylalgia

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Epicondylitis, Lateral Humeral; Tennis Elbow

Treatments: Device: Forearm band; Other: Eccentric training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00975442

221/00

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate eccentric training as an intervention for lateral epicondylalgia (tennis elbow) in a clinical setting.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Positive diagnostic criteria according to Haker (1991): A history of pain around the lateral epicondyle for at least one month.
• Pain at palpation of the lateral epicondyle of humerus and positive results in two of the following three pain provocation tests: Middle finger test, resisted extension of the wrist, and Vigorimeter test. Each of these tests is described in detail by Haker (1991)

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with rheumatoid arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Previous surgery in the elbow region
• Neck dysfunction suggesting possible cervical rhizopathy
• Entrapment of n.radialis
• Patients with ongoing treatment, or previous treatment less than three months before enrolled to the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Eccentric training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Forearm band

Other: Eccentric training

Device: Forearm band

Forearm band

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Forearm band

Device: Forearm band