Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Mr Matthew Costa
ORCID ID
Contact details
Associate Professor Trauma and Orthopaedics Warwick Medical School
Clinical Sciences Research Institute
Clifford Bridge Road
Coventry
CV2 2DX
United Kingdom
+44 02476 968618
matthew.costa@warwick.ac.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0547126170
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Does heavy eccentric loading exercises improve chronic achilles tendon pain?
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled pilot study
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Achilles tendon
Intervention
1. Heavy-load eccentric calf muscle training
2. Ultrasound therapy
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Change in visual analogue pain scores (VAS) between pre-treatment and 12 weeks
Secondary outcome measures
Change in FILLA and EuroQol scores and clinical parameters, between pre-treatment and 12 weeks and 52 weeks.
Overall trial start date
01/11/2002
Overall trial end date
01/11/2004
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
60 patients, 30 controls
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
90
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/11/2002
Recruitment end date
01/11/2004
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Associate Professor Trauma and Orthopaedics Warwick Medical School
Coventry
CV2 2DX
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
East Norfolk and Waveney Research Consortium (UK) - Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital/Norwich PCT
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
2007 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662639
Publication citations
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Results
Chester R, Costa ML, Shepstone L, Cooper A, Donell ST, Eccentric calf muscle training compared with therapeutic ultrasound for chronic Achilles tendon pain--a pilot study., Man Ther, 2008, 13, 6, 484-491, doi: 10.1016/j.math.2007.05.014.