NCT00377910

The Efficacy of Polidocanol Injections as a Treatment of Chronic Achilles. Tendinopathy

Placebo Controlled Trial, Testing the Efficacy of Polidocanol Injections as a Treatment of Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Detailed description

48 patients with chronic achilles tendinopathy for more than 3 months who have tried excentric exercises without success will be randomised to either polidocanol or lidocaine injections if having ultrasound verified neo-vascularisation.

Conditions

• Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Aethoxysclerol	2 ml Aethoxysclerol 10 mg/ml 2 ml. lidocaine 10mg/ml

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-01-01
• Completion: 2009-01-01
• First posted: 2006-09-19
• Last updated: 2014-03-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark