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Different modalities of treatment for tennis elbowOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This study was carried on 57 patients to compare between corticosteroid injection and Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for tennis elbow patients who failed conservative treatment, it was carried on to distinguish 2nd line of treatment between conservative and operative treatment.
The volunteers were divided into two groups: Extracorporeal shockwave therapy and triamcinolone injection as a widely known and used steroid for orthopaedic injections and commonly used in tennis elbow injection.
Assessment was performed using patient rated tennis elbow evaluation questionnaire, fifteen questions asked to the patient to assess both pain and functional disability, an objective tool for precise assessment of the condition and improvement.
Results showed superiority of steroid injection in improvement of patient during the first month post-injection over ESWT, almost equaling results in the 3 months follow up, and deterioration of the steroid in 6 months follow up with high recurrence rate, superiority of ESWT was denoted starting from three months follow up post-ESWT, yet lacking of statistical significance in comparison to steroid injection, and rising till reaching a significant difference in 6 months follow up.