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Efficacy Study of Fine Needle Technique on Calcific Tendinitis

NCT00506038 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2009-06-23

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Summary

Background: Calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff may cause chronic pain at the shoulder. Sometimes the pain can lead to a serious impairment in the daily life.

One of the most efficient treatments is percutaneous needle aspiration using ultrasound guidance.

This treatment includes identification the tendonitis with US or screening , local anesthesia and then puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff many times. The treatment is short 5-10 minutes, relatively cheap ,safe and usually with good outcomes. However in the literature there is a lack of controlled prospective trials.

Our goal is to set a study that will evaluate this treatment between two groups:

1. Puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff 15 times (the experiment group)
2. Puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff twice (the controlled group)

Conditions

  • Tendinitis

Interventions

PROCEDURE

fine needle technique

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hadassah Medical Organization

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ori Safran, MD · Hadassah Medical Organization

  • Charles Milgrom, Prof. · Hadassah Medical Organization

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
90 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

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