Optimising corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia with physiotherapy: a randomised placebo control trial.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/511238

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tennis elbow affects just under 1% of patients seeing a doctor and on average 10-30% need to take 12 weeks off work. Two popular treatments are physiotherapy and corticosteroid injections. We have recently shown that whilst injection is superior in the short term (3 weeks) compared to physiotherapy, it is responsible for 9 times more recurrences. We seek a solution for the downside to steroid injections, by studying the effects of adding physiotherapy; as such it will address a major problem.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $373,393.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Rehabilitation And Therapy: Occupational And Physical

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

clinical trial | corticosteroids | iatrogenic | injury rehabilitation and management | lateral epicondylalgia (tennis elbow) | long term treatment outcome | muscle tendon | musculoskeletal pain | physiotherapy | primary health care

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