NCT04887844

Efficacy of Corticosteroid and Local Anesthetic Injections Patients With Concomitant Pes Anserine Bursitis

Comparison of the Efficacy of Corticosteroid and Local Anesthetic Injections Combined With Conventional Physiotherapy in Patients With Concomitant Pes Anserine Bursitis and Knee Osteoarthritis:

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abant Izzet Baysal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the efficiencies of local corticosteroid injections and local anesthetics in patients with concomitant pes anserine bursitis and osteoarthritis.

Detailed description

Several treatment options have been tried with varying success rates, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy modalities, cold application with ice-packs, and injection of local anesthetics and/or corticosteroids. Despite a relatively high frequency of this painful condition, surprisingly, few studies have evaluated treatment strategies in randomized controlled study design. To the best of our knowledge, no study in the literature made a comparison of the efficacy of local anesthetic and corticosteroid injections in addition to physiotherapy in the treatment of pes anserine bursitis yet. Thus, we aimed to compare the treatment efficacies of physiotherapy alone, physiotherapy + local anesthetic injection, and physiotherapy + local corticosteroid injection in a randomized controlled study design in patients with concomitant osteoarthritis and pes anserine bursitis.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis Knees Both

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Lidocaine injection	Lidocaine injection were applied to the most tender point in the pes anserine region by means of the soft tissue infiltration technique only once at the commencement of the treatment period. All injections were performed by the same physician.
DRUG	Corticosteroid injection	Corticosteroid injection were applied to the most tender point in the pes anserine region by means of the soft tissue infiltration technique only once at the commencement of the treatment period. All injections were performed by the same physician.
OTHER	Conventional Physical therapy	The study participants underwent a physiotherapy program that included a one-time 15-minute cold therapy using ice packs and closed-kinetic chain quadriceps strengthening program as follows; isometric quadriceps exercise, isokinetic concentric, and eccentric quadriceps exercises with heel slides and squads. These exercises were repeated ten times a day, seven days per week, for eight weeks in total

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-01
• Primary completion: 2020-03-01
• Completion: 2020-03-15
• First posted: 2021-05-14
• Last updated: 2021-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)