Minimal Invasive Treatment of Achilles Tendinopathy: Focus on Percutaneous Release (Maffulli)

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tendinopathy

Treatments: Procedure: percutaneous paratenon release

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04793971

S57392

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the outcome of percutaneous paratenon release for chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy.

Full description

Since 2011 the percutaneous procedure took the place of the open release of the paratenon for the surgical treatment for chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy in the investigators' center. In this study the investigators re-evaluate the patients undergoing percutaneous surgery since then in order to compare the outcome with the excellent results cited in literature. The patients will be contacted and asked to participate completing a VAS-score, a VISA-A score and agreeing with a clinical examination.

Approving by the Ethical Committee of UZLeuven is pending.

Enrollment: 8 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients that underwent percutaneous paratenon release for chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy

Exclusion criteria

• insertional tendinopathy
• open intervention
• (partial) Achilles tendon rupture

Trial design

8 participants in 1 patient group

postoperative cases

Description:

patients that underwent percutaneous release of the paratenon for chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy

Treatment:

Procedure: percutaneous paratenon release