The Efficacy of Polidocanol Injections as a Treatment of Chronic Achilles. Tendinopathy
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2009-01-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Chronic achilles tendinopathy is a common disease especially in adults. The golden standard
in treatment has up to now been excentric exercises but with varying success. A new
hypothesis is that this chronic pain is due to neo vascularisation. In a pilot study
sclerosing injections with polidocanol have had a successful efficacy. Our aim is to study
the efficacy of polidocanol as a treatment in a randomised controlled setting on a larger
scale.