Tendinitis
Conditions
Keywords
Calcific Tendinitis
Brief summary
Background: Calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff may cause chronic pain at the shoulder. Sometimes the pain can lead to a serious impairment in the daily life. One of the most efficient treatments is percutaneous needle aspiration using ultrasound guidance. This treatment includes identification the tendonitis with US or screening , local anesthesia and then puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff many times. The treatment is short 5-10 minutes, relatively cheap ,safe and usually with good outcomes. However in the literature there is a lack of controlled prospective trials. Our goal is to set a study that will evaluate this treatment between two groups: 1. Puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff 15 times (the experiment group) 2. Puncturing the calcium in the rotator cuff twice (the controlled group)
Interventions
PROCEDUREfine needle technique
Sponsors
Hadassah Medical Organization
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Age 18 and above. 2. 6 months of pain in the shoulder. 3. Positive IMPING and sensitivity on SST. 4. Calcification above 1 cm in one of the dimensions by US or aray of the shoulder. 5. Completed conservative treatment: physiotherapy or analgesics.
Exclusion criteria
1. Diabetes, Nephrological diseases 2. RC tear according to US. 3. Prior operation in this shoulder 4. Steroids injection in the last three months. 5. A patient that is in the absorption phase of the tendinitis 6. Pregnancy 7. Coagulation System impairments
Outcome results
None listed