Iranian Journal of Orthopedic Surgery

Investigating the effect of corticosteroids on the pain and performance of patients with tennis elbow in comparison with the effect of normal saline: a three-blind randomized controlled clinical trial

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

فلاح Falah 1
افقهی Afghahi 2
Seyed ehsan Tadrisi 3

1 Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Student

3 دانشگاه علوم‌پزشکی ارتش

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijos.2024.462858.1086
Abstract
Tennis elbow, or external epicondylitis of the arm, is usually associated with chronic tracheitis and is treated, and it is acceptable to have a full effect, it is not introduced to be necessary to treat this condition. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of corticosteroids on the pain and performance of tennis elbow patients. This study was conducted on 43 patients (21 in the normal saline group and 22 in the corticosteroid group). Patients are randomly divided into two groups, and the prescribed drugs and pain and function are recorded in patients 1 month and 3 months later. Chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests are used to compare data. The results of our study showed that both treatment methods of corticosteroid injection and normal saline in the short term improved the pain and performance of patients based on the DASH questionnaire (P<0.05), but in the long term (3 months after the intervention) it was similar to normal saline. , we saw the return of symptoms in such a way that the pain score increased between 0.5 and one unit and the DASH score increased between 5 and 10 units. As a result, it can be seen that corticosteroid injection is not superior to normal saline, and both methods have little effect in the long term and are more effective in the short term, and due to the high side effects of corticosteroids, treatment with normal saline is better.

Keywords

Lateral epicondilite
corticosteroid
normal saline

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