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Effectiveness of the "Tecaretherapy" in Patients With Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy

NCT03939247 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2021-07-13

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Summary

This RCT aims at investigating the effectiveness of the "Tecaretherapy" in patients with lateral elbow tendinopathy.

60 patients will be randomized into one of the following 3 groups:

* "Conventional physiotherapy treatment (CPT)" (massage, eccentric exercises, stretching);
* "CPT + Tecare" (idem CPT group + tecaretherapy during the eccentric exercises)
* "CPT + Placebo Tecare" (idem "CPT + Tecare" group but with an inactive Tecare device) The treatment will include 18 30-minute sessions

Conditions

  • Tendinopathy

Interventions

OTHER

Active Tecaretherapy

The "Tecaretherapy": consists of using a specific device providing high frequencies (between 300 kHz and 1 MHz) supposed to accelerate the tissues healing process

OTHER

Inactive Tecaretherapy

Inactive "Tecaretherapy": the device will not provide any current.

OTHER

CPT

Conventional physiotherapy treatment (massage, eccentric exercises, stretching)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Liege

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marc Vanderthommen, Prof · University of Liege

  • Bénédicte Forthomme, Prof · University of Liege

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-25
Primary Completion
2021-07-01
Completion
2021-07-01

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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