NCT02951403

Results of the Treatment of Patients With Elbow Osteoarthritis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tampere University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study is a prospective case controlled clinical trial. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of elbow arthroscopy in the treatment for osteoarthritis of the elbow when compared to conservative treatment.

Detailed description

Patients will be recruited at departments of hand surgery and orthopedic surgery outpatient clinics. The control group will be patients to whom the conservative treatment continues. Patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be asked to participate and sign the informed consent. Therefore the investigators have two treatment groups: group 1 who receives an elbow joint debridement arthroscopically without physiotherapy and group 2 who receives only conservative treatment with physiotherapy.

Conditions

• Elbow Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Elbow arthroscopy	Arthroscopic debridement, osteophyte excision, loose body extirpation is carried on to patients.
OTHER	Conservative treatment	Physiotherapy protocol is introduced to patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2020-12-01
• First posted: 2016-11-01
• Last updated: 2019-09-17

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Finland