IRCT20170311033000N3 IRCT 2018-02-17 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Comparison of steroid injection vs dextrose prolotherapy in patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis Comparison of steroid injection vs dextrose prolotherapy effects in improvement of patients with chronic lateral epicondylitis 2017-08-22 anticipated 36 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/28452 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Double blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Treatment, Randomization description: Block randomization, Blinding description: Patients as participants and the responsible physician as an assessor of the out comes are blinded to the type of injection. 3 chronic lateral epicondylitis. Intervention 1: Intervention group: One time injection of 2cc dextrose 16 % made from 4 cc dextrose 20% and 1 cc lidocaine 2% with blue needle by pepering technique in lateral epicondyle region. Intervention 2: Control group: One time injection of solution 1 cc methylprednisolone 40 mg and 1 cc lidocaine with blue needle by pepering technique in lateral epicondyle region. Undecided - It is not yet known if there will be a plan to make this available Justification or reason for indecision in sharing IPD is The study has not finished yet