Corticosteroid and Lidocain Injections for Tennis Elbow

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators hypothesized that lidocain injection is as effective as corticosteroid injection in management of tennis elbow, and if so, it may replace corticosteroid injection in the management of tennis elbow.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Between 20 and 75 years of age, with lateral elbow pain ≥4 in pain VAS for at least 1 month

• Reproducibility of pain by 2 or more of the following tests: palpation of the lateral epicondyle and/or the common extensor origin of the elbow; resisted wrist extension (dorsiflexion) and pronation with the elbow in extension

• Pain reproduced by static stretching of the pronated wrist in palmar flexion with the elbow in extension.

Exclusion Criteria:

• not fulfill inclusion criteria