- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04803825
The NOrwegian Tennis Elbow (NOTE) Study
The Feasibility of Heavy-slow Resistance Training, Radial Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (rESWT) and Information and Advice. The NOrwegian Tennis Elbow (NOTE) Study
Trial Design:
The Norwegian Tennis Elbow (NOTE) study is a single-centre; three-armed, feasibility randomised controlled trial.
Aim:
The primary aim of this study is to pilot the methods proposed to conduct a definite RCT study.
Objectives:
- Measure the process of recruitment.
- Measure intervention adherence and acceptability.
- Measure outcome measure retention rate and completeness. The Patient-Rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE) will be used as the primary outcome measure.
Intervention:
Patients will be randomised to either: 1) Heavy slow resistance training (HSR), 2) Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) or 3) Information and advice.
Follow-up will be after 3 and 6 months.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Background:
Lateral epicondylalgia, also known as tennis elbow, cause functional disability with high costs due to productivity loss, healthcare use and sickness absence. Evidence shows that physiotherapy is the most preferred patient treatment among Norwegian patients. However, the most efficient treatment for chronic tennis elbow is yet to be acknowledged. Exercises are a commonly used modality for tennis elbows. However, contradictory to lower limb tendinopathies, a pragmatic heavy slow resistance (HSR) exercise training protocol for tennis elbow have not yet been investigated. Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) is another widely used modality and evidence is spares and inconsistent, reviews conclude that more high quality studies are needed.
This feasibility study will provide methodological evidence that will play an important role in the development of future RCT. The project will include 60 patients with lateral epicondylalgia, these patients will be randomised to either: 1) HSR exercises 2) rESWT or 3) information and advice. The randomization sequence is computer-generated with blocks of variable size, which is unknown to the treater and the outcome assessor. A research assistant will supply the trial physiotherapist with allocations to which group. The investigator assessing the outcome measures will be blind to group allocation. Statistical analysis will be conducted on a blinded intention-to-treat basis. Due to the nature of the intervention in the study, blinding of the trial physiotherapist will not be possible.
Tele rehabilitation and welfare technology are rapidly increasing its usability and value. To investigate if tele rehabilitation is suitable for a RCT, the exercise group will be offered voluntary tele rehabilitation as an alternative to physical follow-up.
Aims:
The objectives that will be evaluate is; 1) the process of recruitment, 2) intervention adherence and acceptability and 3) the outcome measures.
- The process of recruitment will be measured by descriptive statistics from the enrolment. If participants redraw after baseline testing or are unwilling to be randomized, the participant will be asked to describe the reason.
- To measure adherence to the intervention, participants will be asked to fil out an exercise diary which will be controlled at follow up consultations and collected at 3 months. Usage of tele rehabilitation and percentage of participants meeting to their appointments will be measured with descriptive statistics after 3 months. The acceptability and understanding of the intervention will be measure by a -9/+9 likert scale for acceptability of treatment the second session after randomization and at 3 months.
- The retention rate and completeness of data of the primary and secondary outcome measures for a future full power RCT will be measured with explorative outcomes.
Statistical plan:
The analysis will focus on descriptive statistics with confidence intervals for the variables obtained. The characteristics of the patients will be presented as means with SDs, as medians with IQR or as counts with percentages. Being a feasibility study, our main aim is to describe the study sample of patients with tennis elbow and to assess our ability to collect data. Hence, the investigators will not perform any imputation of missing data. Change in the main outcome from baseline to follow-up (3 and 6 months) will be analysed using generalised linear mixed models.
There will be performed studies evaluating the validity, reliability, interpretability and responsiveness of the The Patient-Rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation, maximum grip strength and pain free grip strength. To achieve adequate power for the evaluation of the psychometric properties of the outcome measures. 40 more tennis elbow participants receiving treatement as usal from our clinic will be added to these analysis, in addion to the 60 participants in the RCT.
Included participants will have an ultrasound examination of their elbow by a trained doctor at baseline.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Håkon Sveinall, PT
- Phone Number: +4747388927
- Email: hasvei@ous-hf.no
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Marianne Bakke Johnsen, PT, PHD
- Email: UXJJRM@ous-hf.no
Study Locations
-
-
-
Oslo, Norway, 0450
- Oslo University Hospital
-
-
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to fill in the questionnaires (understand oral and written Norwegian)
- Clinically diagnosed tennis elbow provoked by at least two of: Pain on pressure of the common extensor origin, Pain during power grip, Resisted wrist extension (Tomsen test), Resisted third finger extension (Maudsley´s test), Stretching of the extensors (Mill´s test)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients With significant Language issues (does not understand oral or written Norwegian
- Contraindications to ESWT (pregnancy, coagulation disturbance, connective tissues disease, epilepsy, use og pacemaker)
- Suspicion of other serious illness
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Double
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
---|---|
Experimental: Heavy Slow Exercise
One dedicated physiotherapist will supervise and instruct the exercise program on an individual basis.
If the patient doesn't have access to a dumbbell, it will be offered free rental from the physiotherapy ward.
Follow-up on the exercises will be scheduled as needed and tele rehabilitation will be offered as an option.
Additionally to HSR exercises, participants will be instructed to perform daily stretches of the forearm.
|
Other Names:
|
Active Comparator: Extracorporeal Shock wave therapy
The patients will receive rESWT (SwissDolodClast/EMS) once a week for three sessions.
The treatment will be given by a physiotherapist trained in using rESWT.
The rESWT is given on the ECRB tendon insertion area.
|
Two thousand impulses of shock waves are applied to the painful tendon, with a pressure between 1.5 and 3.0 bar (depending on what the patient tolerates).
We use a power hand piece that provides energy of 0.01-0.35
mJ/mm2
Other Names:
|
Active Comparator: Information and advice
The information and advice group are given a single face-to-face session with a physiotherapist, lasting up to 60 minutes.
|
Information and advice are based on assessment and will comprise the standardized oral and written information.
Participants will be educated regarding pain during and after activities and encouraged to be physically active.
With only one session, there is great reliance on self-management.
Thus, information and advice are made available through a handout.
|
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
The process of recruitment
Time Frame: 2 year
|
Criteria for success is that >75 percent of patients should be eligible for randomization, >90% should be willing to be randomized, recruitment rate should be 3.75 participants per month.
|
2 year
|
Intervention adherence (appointments)
Time Frame: 3 months
|
Criteria for success is that 90 percent meets to appointments (Either physically or tele)
|
3 months
|
Intervention adherence (training sessions)
Time Frame: 3 months
|
In the HSR group ≥ 30 training sessions should be completed within 12 weeks,
|
3 months
|
Intervention acceptability and understandability
Time Frame: 3 months
|
≥ 10/20 within each group should rate the treatment ≥+3 "acceptable" and ≥ 10/20 within each intervention group should rate the treatment ≥+3 "understandable"
|
3 months
|
Retention and completeness of patient-reported outcome measures
Time Frame: 6 months
|
The retention of completed patient-reported outcome measures (i.e.
PRTEE, Quick DASH, EQ-5D-5L should be >75 percent.
|
6 months
|
Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
---|---|---|
The Patient-Rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE)
Time Frame: 6 months
|
The Patient-Rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE), formerly known as the Patient-Rated Forearm Evaluation Questionnaire (PRFEQ), is a 15-item questionnaire designed to measure forearm pain and disability in patients with lateral epicondylitis.The questionnaire is scored from 0 - 100 and a higher scores indicate a greater level of disability and severity, whereas, lower scores indicate a lower level of disability.
Scores from The PRTEE questionaire will also be used calculate sample size in a future RCT.
|
6 months
|
Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Outcome Measure (Quick-DASH)
Time Frame: 6 months
|
The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Outcome Measure (Quick-DASH) questionnaire is an 11-item shortened version of the thirty-item DASH outcome measure.
It measures physical function and symptoms related to upper-limb musculoskeletal disorders.
The questionnaire is scored from 0 - 100 and a higher scores indicate a greater level of disability and severity, whereas, lower scores indicate a lower level of disability.
|
6 months
|
The 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L)
Time Frame: 6 months
|
The 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) descriptive system comprises five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Each dimension has 5 levels: Level 1: no problems, Level 2: slight problems, Level 3: moderate problems, Level 4: severe problems and Level 5: extreme problems.
The patient is asked to indicate his/her health state by ticking the box next to the most appropriate statement in each of the five dimensions.
This decision results in a 1 digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension, The digits for the five dimensions can be combined into a 5-digit number that describes the patient's health state.
A total of 3125 possible health states is defined in this way.
For example state "12345" indicates no problems with mobility, slight problems with washing or dressing, moderate problems with doing usual activities, severe pain or discomfort and extreme anxiety or depression.
|
6 months
|
The 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) VAS (EQ VAS)
Time Frame: 6 months
|
The 5-level EQ-5D VAS (EQ VAS) records the patient's self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale, where the endpoints are labelled 'The best health you can imagine' and 'The worst health you can imagine'.
The EQ VAS is scored from 0 - 100 and a lower score indicate poorer health, higher scores indicate a better health.
The EQ VAS can be used as a quantitative measure of health outcome that reflect the patient's own judgement.
|
6 months
|
Pain free grip strength
Time Frame: 3 months
|
Patients will hold a hand grip dynamometer (Jamar) in a standing position with a fully extended elbow in a neutral pronation/supination.
The patient will be instructed to squeeze slowly and stop squeezing at the onset of pain; the values in kg will then be registered.
The pain free grip strength is measured three times at the asymptomatic side, with a 20-second rest interval between each measurement and then the procedure is repeated at the symptomatic side.
After tested in fully extended position the same procedure will be followed with a 90 degrees elbow flexion, and in a neutral pronation/supination.
|
3 months
|
Maximum grip strength
Time Frame: 3 months
|
Patients will hold a hand grip dynamometer (Jamar) in a standing position with a fully extended elbow in a neutral pronation/supination.
The patient will be instructed to squeeze with their maximum effort; the values in kg will then be registered.
The maximum grip strength is measured three times at the asymptomatic side, with a 20-second rest interval between each measurement and then the procedure is repeated at the symptomatic side.
After tested in fully extended position the same procedure will be followed with a 90 degrees elbow flexion, and in a neutral pronation/supination.
|
3 months
|
Maximum grip strength pain
Time Frame: 3 months
|
Immediately after each of the 12 squeezes of maximum grip strength the physiotherapist will ask the patient to rate their pain on a 10 - point NRS scale where 0 indicate no pain and 10 the worst imaginable pain.
|
3 months
|
Global improvement
Time Frame: 3 months
|
The Global improvement will measure the patients change from baseline.
With a scale ranging from -5 to +5, where -5 is maximum worsening 0 is unchanged, and +5 is completely recovered.
Patients will also answer whether they experience the change as meaningful.
|
3 months
|
Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Håkon Sveinall, PT, Oslo University Hospital
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Slade SC, Dionne CE, Underwood M, Buchbinder R. Consensus on Exercise Reporting Template (CERT): Explanation and Elaboration Statement. Br J Sports Med. 2016 Dec;50(23):1428-1437. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096651. Epub 2016 Oct 5.
- Herdman M, Gudex C, Lloyd A, Janssen M, Kind P, Parkin D, Bonsel G, Badia X. Development and preliminary testing of the new five-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L). Qual Life Res. 2011 Dec;20(10):1727-36. doi: 10.1007/s11136-011-9903-x. Epub 2011 Apr 9.
- Eldridge SM, Chan CL, Campbell MJ, Bond CM, Hopewell S, Thabane L, Lancaster GA; PAFS consensus group. CONSORT 2010 statement: extension to randomised pilot and feasibility trials. BMJ. 2016 Oct 24;355:i5239. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i5239.
- Beaton DE, Wright JG, Katz JN; Upper Extremity Collaborative Group. Development of the QuickDASH: comparison of three item-reduction approaches. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005 May;87(5):1038-46. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.D.02060.
- Mokkink LB, Terwee CB, Patrick DL, Alonso J, Stratford PW, Knol DL, Bouter LM, de Vet HC. The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study. Qual Life Res. 2010 May;19(4):539-49. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9606-8. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
- Macdermid J. Update: The Patient-rated Forearm Evaluation Questionnaire is now the Patient-rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation. J Hand Ther. 2005 Oct-Dec;18(4):407-10. doi: 10.1197/j.jht.2005.07.002. No abstract available.
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 109547
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
- ICF
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.
Clinical Trials on Lateral Epicondylitis
-
Hospital for Special Surgery, New YorkActive, not recruitingLateral Epicondylitis | Lateral Epicondylitis, Unspecified Elbow | Lateral Epicondylitis, Left Elbow | Lateral Epicondylitis, Right Elbow | Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow) Bilateral | Medial Epicondylitis | Medial Epicondylitis, Right Elbow | Medial Epicondylitis, Left ElbowUnited States
-
Singapore General HospitalNot yet recruitingLateral Epicondylitis, Unspecified Elbow
-
McMaster UniversityArthrex, Inc.; The Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation; Radiological...TerminatedLateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)Canada, United States
-
Haseki Training and Research HospitalCompletedLateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow)Turkey
-
Siddharth Padia, MDRecruiting
-
University of CadizNot yet recruitingElbow Tendinopathy | Epicondylitis | Epicondylitis, Lateral | Epicondylitis of the Elbow
-
Chuncheon Sacred Heart HospitalRecruitingLateral Epicondylitis of ElbowKorea, Republic of
-
Uskudar State HospitalRecruitingLateral Epicondylitis | Lateral Epicondylitis, Unspecified ElbowTurkey
-
Istanbul Training and Research HospitalCompletedLateral Epicondylitis | Comparing Autologous Blood Corticosteroid and Their Combined Injection for Treating Lateral EpicondylitisTurkey
-
Mennallah Ahmed Mohamed Anwar ElgendyNot yet recruiting
Clinical Trials on Heavy Slow Exercises
-
Bispebjerg HospitalCompletedJumper's Knee | Patellar TendinopathyDenmark
-
University Hospital, GhentCompletedAchilles TendinopathyBelgium
-
Ministry of Health, KuwaitNot yet recruiting
-
Mustafa Kemal UniversityThe Scientific and Technological Research Council of TurkeyNot yet recruitingSubacromial Impingement Syndrome | Bicep Tendinitis | Rotator Cuff TendinopathyTurkey
-
Bispebjerg HospitalTeam DenmarkRecruiting
-
University of CopenhagenCompleted
-
Bispebjerg HospitalRecruitingAchilles TendinopathyDenmark
-
Bispebjerg HospitalUniversity College Absalon; Danske FysioterapeuterActive, not recruitingJumper's Knee | Patellar TendinopathyDenmark
-
Universidade Cidade de Sao PauloTerminatedPatellar TendinopathyBrazil
-
University of Southern DenmarkOdense University Hospital; Aalborg University Hospital; Sygehus Lillebaelt; Region...Completed