Hands-On therapy may soothe tennis elbow without drugs
NCT ID NCT07461311
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a standardized manual physiotherapy protocol can reduce pain and improve movement in people with tennis elbow. 160 participants will either receive the active treatment or follow a watchful waiting approach. Researchers will measure pain, grip strength, and joint mobility to see if the therapy helps.
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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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About 160 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 60 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: * Clinical diagnosis of epicondylalgia. * Pain on palpation of the epicondyle. Performed and measured with an algometer. * Pain on isometric contraction against resistance of the wrist extensors (epicondylar muscles). * Pain on contraction of the wrist and finger flexor muscles or pressure force. Performed and measured with a JAMAR manual pressure dynamometer. * Pain on stretching-elongation of the epicondylar muscles or Mills test (wrist and finger flexion, forearm pronation and elbow extension). * Pain during prono-supination movements of the forearm and/or flexion-extension of the elbow. Subjects must meet a minimum of 4 of the 5 inclusion criteria to be part of the study. In addition to the inclusion criteria, subjects must be between 18 and 60 years of age, able to answer questionnaires in Spanish, and give their written consent. Exclusion Criteria: * History of elbow fractures or cracks during the last twelve months. * History of elbow dislocations and/or subluxations during the last twelve months. * History of elbow surgery. * Congenital and/or acquired elbow deformity. * Organic elbow condition (osteoarthritis, arthritis). * Radio-humeral bursitis. * Radio-humeral chondromalacia. * Tear of the annular ligament. * Detachment of the periosteum. * Tendon rupture in the elbow. * Metabolic or infectious arthropathy. * Cervical pathology or cervicobrachial neuralgia. * Bilateral elbow pain. * Radial nerve compression neuropathy. * Participating in professional or amateur sports. * Having received treatment with injections, physiotherapy or manual physiotherapy for your condition during the previous 6 months. * Pain lasting less than 6 weeks. * Receiving other treatment during the study. * Patient absenteeism from treatment. We define patient absenteeism as missing a treatment session and/or measurement. We do not count delays of less than 2 days in a treatment session and/or measurement as absenteeism.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38200, Spain
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