Tennis elbow relief: simple cuff boosts therapy results?
NCT ID NCT03978897
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether adding a blood flow restriction tourniquet to standard physical therapy helps people with tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) more than therapy alone. 41 adults participated, and researchers measured pain and function changes over 12 months. The goal was to see if this simple addition could ease symptoms and improve daily activities.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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41 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jul 2019
- Finished
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Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * The diagnoses included are lateral elbow pain, lateral epicondylitis, or lateral epicondylalgia, more general diagnoses elbow tendinitis or elbow pain will be included if their clinical picture at physical therapy meets criteria for lateral epicondylitis. * If the inclusion diagnosis is other than lateral epicondylitis or tennis elbow (such as elbow pain), we will confirm the diagnosis at the first therapy visit with tenderness at the lateral epicondyle and/or pain with resisted wrist/long finger extension at the lateral epicondyle. * Pain for 4 weeks or more. * All participants must be between the age of 18 and 70 years old and have had pain for 4 weeks or more. Exclusion Criteria: * Ligamentous elbow sprain, osteoarthritis of elbow and cervical radiculopathy in the affected limb will be excluded from the study. * Any history of ligamentous, bony or other soft tissue reconstruction surgery at the affected elbow, * Vascular disorders to include: history of DVT, history of endothelial dysfunction, peripheral vascular disease * Injection therapy (corticosteroid, platelet rich plasma, or other injection therapy) in the prior 3 months to the affected site * Current fracture in affected arm * History of crush injury to affected arm * Any surgery on affected arm in last 1 year * Surgical procedure on their contralateral extremity (Changed 9/2019 to surgery within last year on contralateral upper extremity). * History of lymphectomy (such as axillary exploration with breast surgery, lymph node biopsy in the affected axilla/arm) * Pregnancy * Active infection * Current cancer diagnosis/treatment * Sickle cell anemia or trait * Kidney dialysis * History of syncope/passing out with pressure to body (such as massage, or blood pressure cuff). * inability to consent
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Akron, Ohio, 44307, United States
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