Tennis Elbow – Efficacy of local Corticosteroid injection in its Management
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Local corticosteroid injection versus Cyriax-type physiotherapy for tennis elbow.
We performed a prospective, randomised trial on 106 patients to compare the effects of local corticosteroid injections with physiotherapy as advocated by Cyriax in the treatment of tennis elbow. The main outcome measures were the severity of pain, pain provoked by resisted dorsiflexion of the wrist, and patient satisfaction. At six weeks 22 of 53 patients in the injection group were free from p...
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BACKGROUND Tennis elbow is a condition, characterised by pain and tenderness over the lateral epicondyle of the humerus, and pain on resisted dorsiflexion of the wrist, middle finger, or both. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate the short term efficacy of local steroid injection compared with oral and topical NSAIDs. METHODS Sixty patients (45 male and 15 female) we...
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CLINICAL QUESTION What is the best treatment for tennis elbow? RESULTS Despite a wealth of research, there is no true consensus on the most efficacious management of tennis elbow especially for effective long-term outcomes. Corticosteroid injections do show large pain-relieving effects in the short term but are associated with risks of adverse events and long-term reoccurrence. Advice with a ...
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Tennis elbow is a tendinopathy of the common extensor origin (fig 1) of the lateral elbow. Although the pathology is in the elbow region, patients present with gradual onset of pain on extension movements of the wrist and fingers and supination of the forearm. The condition was formerly known as “lateral epicondylitis.” Because the pathology is no longer thought to be inflammatory, the “itis” s...
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عنوان ژورنال: IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2347-6745,2347-6737
DOI: 10.9790/6737-03031216