Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 2:29 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 2:29 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02596659
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Aged \> 18 years old
* Lateral elbow pain lasting \> 3 months
* Pain induced by direct compression on the lateral epicondyle or common extensor tendon, resistant wrist extension and pronation in the elbow extension position, or static stretching of common extensor tendon through the palmer flexion in wrist pronation and elbow extension position
Exclusion Criteria:
* Generalized inflammatory arthritis (e.g., rheumatic arthritis)
* Pain at the proximal part of involved arm (e.g., shoulder pain, neck pain)
* Pain other than elbow pain at the involved arm
* Abnormal neurogenic symptom over the involved arm (e.g., radicular pain, hands numbness, hemiplegia)
* Wound or skin lesion at the elbow of the involved arm
* Pregnancy
* Severe local or systemic infection
* Malignancy
* Coagulopathy
* Cardiac pacemaker
* History of surgical treatment at the elbow of the involved arm
* Non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) use orally or topically at the elbow of the involved arm in the past week
* Local steroid injection at the elbow of the involved arm in the past 3 months
* Oral steroid use in the past 6 weeks
* Refusal to sign the informed consent
* Impairment in self-expression (e.g., dementia, aphasia)
* Inability/unwillingness to participate in all the measurements.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT02596659
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02596659