NCT06300749

Effectiveness of Chiropractic Cervical Manipulation in Lateral Epicondylitis

The Effect of Chiropractic Cervical Manipulation on Pain, Functionality and Grip Strength in Patients With Lateral Epicondylitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mesut Arslan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

İt is aimed to examine the effect of chiropractic cervical manipulation on pain, functionality and grip strength in patients with lateral epicondylitis and whether it is preferable to placebo.

Detailed description

Lateral Epicondylitis (LE) is known as chronic symptomatic degeneration of the forearm common extensor tendon attachment at the humeral ectochondyle. It is one of the most common overuse syndromes today and is characterized by loss of function and pain due to an inflammatory reaction that occurs during stretching of the condyle. The main goals of the treatments are to relieve pain, reduce overload on the arm and elbow joints, accelerate the healing process and enable the patient to regain functionality in daily life activities at the optimum time. Many treatment methods have been applied for this purpose, and the number of studies on the effectiveness of manual applications is increasing. Among manual applications, chiropractic applications have recently attracted attention.

Conditions

• Lateral Epicondylitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chiropractic Cervical Manipulation	In the chiropractic cervical manipulation group, the patient was placed in the supine position. The therapist moved to the patient's head, identified the C5-C6 segment by palpation, and manually performed spinal manipulation from the right side using the "cervical rotary break/index push" technique since the dominant side of the patients was the right extremity. In the cervical rotary break/index thrust technique, the lateral aspect of the practitioner's index finger was placed in contact with the posterior aspect of the participant's C5 facet joint, and a rotational thrust was performed between the C5-C6 vertebrae.
OTHER	Sham Technique Practice	The sham technique can be defined as a technique that does not have any therapeutic effect and is preferred to determine whether the efficacy of another technique is superior. The patient was placed in the supine position. The therapist moved to the patient's head, and the C5-C6 segment localized in the lower cervical region was detected by palpation. The C5-C6 segment was positioned to perform chiropractic cervical manipulation and waited for 30 seconds without any pushing force.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-30
• Primary completion: 2019-01-03
• Completion: 2019-01-03
• First posted: 2024-03-08
• Last updated: 2024-03-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)