Results of the Treatment of Patients With Elbow Osteoarthritis

Tampere University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Elbow Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: Conservative treatment; Procedure: Elbow arthroscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02951403

R15117

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a prospective case controlled clinical trial. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of elbow arthroscopy in the treatment for osteoarthritis of the elbow when compared to conservative treatment.

Full description

Patients will be recruited at departments of hand surgery and orthopedic surgery outpatient clinics. The control group will be patients to whom the conservative treatment continues. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be asked to participate and sign the informed consent. Therefore the investigators have two treatment groups: group 1 who receives an elbow joint debridement arthroscopically without physiotherapy and group 2 who receives only conservative treatment with physiotherapy.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Symptomatic post-traumatic or primary osteoarthritis - mechanical locking and/or decreased range of motion ( >30°)
• Radiographic evidence of at least mild primary or post-traumatic osteoarthritis according to Broberg - Morrey classification symptoms lasting at least 6 months
• Patients willingness to participate the study
• All patients 18-80 ages

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with previous severe soft tissue trauma at elbow region ( crush, burns etc - the elbow joint problems are not joint specific)
• Patients with crystal arthropathy or inflammatory arthritis
• Patient refuses to participate the study
• Patients with dementia or are institutionalized
• Patients with severe substance addiction
• Patient does not understand written and spoken guidance

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Operative treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Patients to whom the elbow arthroscopy will be performed.

Treatment:

Procedure: Elbow arthroscopy

Conservative treatment

Other group

Description:

Patients to whom special physiotherapy will be advised.

Treatment:

Other: Conservative treatment