Treatment of Tennis Elbow With Botulinum Toxin

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2005-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Botulinum A toxin is effective in the treatment of tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis).

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Collaborator: New World Development Company Limited
• Treatments: abobotulinumtoxinA; Botulinum Toxins; Botulinum Toxins, Type A; incobotulinumtoxinA; onabotulinumtoxinA

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients aged 18 years and up

• Pain at the lateral side of the elbow

• Pain at the lateral epicondyle during resisted dorsiflexion of the wrist with the elbow in full extension

• Pain for longer than 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous operations (including previous steroid injections for the disorder)

• Nerve entrapment

• Pregnancy and while breast-feeding

• Presence of systemic neuromuscular disorders such as myasthenia gravis