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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2021

Efficacy of a local corticosteroid injection on pain, disability and radial nerve thickness in patients with lateral epicondylitis.

Abhimanyu Vasudeva, Ritika Parihar, Osama Neyaz, Ajay Bharti, Gita Handa

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Abhimanyu VasudevaDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ritika PariharDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Osama NeyazDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Ajay BhartiDepartment of Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Gita HandaDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · INAll India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of a steroid injection with conservative therapy (CT) versus CT alone on pain, functional limitations and the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the radial nerve (RN) in patients with lateral epicondylitis (LE). Methods: In this clinical trial, seventy subjects in the age group of 30-60 years with a clinical diagnosis of LE were recruited. Patients received an ultrasound-guided steroid injection and CT (Group A, Results: There was a significant difference in pain intensity ( Conclusions: The CT with a steroid injection proved to be more efficacious in the short term concerning pain intensity and functional limitations. The RN thickness is not increased in patients with LE, thereby refuting its role to some extent in the pathogenesis of LE.

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Functional limitationlateral epicondylitispainradial nervetennis elbow

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PMID35280608
PMCPMC8884310
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