Corticosteroid or placebo injection combined with deep transverse friction massage, Mills manipulation, stretching and eccentric exercise for acute lateral epicondylitis: a randomised, controlled trial.

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Published in BMC Musculoskelet Disord on May 20, 2015

Authors

Morten Olaussen1, Øystein Holmedal2, Ibrahimu Mdala3, Søren Brage4, Morten Lindbæk5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway. morten.olaussen@medisin.uio.no.
2: Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway. oystein.holmedal@medisin.uio.no.
3: Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway. ibrahimu.mdala@odont.uio.no.
4: Research section, Directorate for Labour and Welfare, Oslo, Norway. Soren.Brage@nav.no.
5: Department of General Practice, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Kirkeveien 166, 0450, Oslo, Norway. morten.lindbak@medisin.uio.no.

Associated clinical trials:

Treatment Study of Steroid Injection and Physical Therapy for Acute Lateral Epicondylitis | NCT00826462

Eccentric Exercise in Epicondylitis | NCT03996928

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