NCT03939247

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

Effectiveness of High Frequency Currents (Tecarethérapie) in Patients With Lateral Elbow Tendonopathy

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Detailed description

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 by means of an isokinetic dynamometer, 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. The "Tecaretherapy" consists in using a specific device providing high frequencies (between 300 kHz and 1 MHz) supposed to accelerate the tissues healing process. Outcome sessions will be organized at baseline, after the first 9 sessions, at the end of the treatment as well as 3 and 6 months after the initial treatment session.

Conditions

• Tendinopathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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)

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-25
• Primary completion: 2021-07-01
• Completion: 2021-07-01
• First posted: 2019-05-06
• Last updated: 2021-07-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium