Multiple Platelet-Rich Plasma Lateral Epidondylitis Injections Versus a Single Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tennis Elbow, Lateral Epicondylitis

In brief

To determine the ideal dose of PRP for lateral epicondylitis. To see if 2 PRP injections are better than a single PRP injection or a saline injection to improve function and pain in patients with lateral epicondylitis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02343822

Run by

Kaiser Permanente

People needed

42

Starts

2015-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-09-20

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Lateral epicondylitis - diagnosed by orthopedic or sports medicine physicians / 2 separate examinations (examination at referral / confirmatory examination at time of injection)
• Pain at the lateral epicondyle on direct palpation
• Pain with resistive wrist extension and/or supination
• No clinical findings at annular ligament, radiocapitellar joint, or PIN (posterior interosseous nerve syndrome)
• No underlying bone pathology
• Symptoms present for > 3 months
• Visual analog score (VAS) that is >= 5/10
• Last steroid injection > 3 months
• Failed previous therapy (> = 4 weeks of strap, splint, cast, injection or any other accepted therapy without satisfactory pain or function)

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18 years
• Pregnant
• Symptomatic Carpal Tunnel syndrome on the affected side
• History of cervical radiculopathy
• History of Diabetes Mellitus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, hepatitis
• Blood disorder
• No immunocompromised patients (Human ImmunoDeficiency Virus, cancer, immunomodulator therapies)
• Oral Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory in the past 1 week or Steroid Drug use in the past 3 months
• Participation in a workers' compensation program or planning to apply for the program and/or any ongoing, pending, or planned legal action as a result of elbow pain

Where it is running

• Kaiser Permanente — Modesto, California, United States

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