NCT02546128

LEICeSter Tendon Extracorporeal Shockwave Studies

LEICSTES = LEICeSter Tendon Extracorporeal Shockwave Studies Assessing the Benefits of the Addition of Extra-Corporeal Shockwave Treatment to a Structured Home-rehabilitation Programme for Patients With Tendinopathy.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 720 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospitals, Leicester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 120 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To assess whether the addition of Extra-corporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) to a structured home-exercise programme has any additional benefit to patients with tendinopathies

Detailed description

This involves patients with one of 6 different defined chronic tendinopathies. These individual sites are run as discrete sub-studies, with randomisation n occurring within sub-study grouping

Conditions

• Tendinopathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Extra-Corporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT)	The use of ESWT from a commercially available machine at approved settings already in routine clinical use
OTHER	structured rehabilitation programme	a structured and standardised rehabilitation programme specific to the tendon in question - already in routine clinical use

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2015-09-10
• Last updated: 2024-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom