Is Dorso-Volar Kinesiotape Added to the Home Exercise Program Effective in the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?-Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Pain Evaluation
研究概览
简要总结
This study aimed to compare the short- and medium-term efficacy of dorso-volar kinesiotape (KT) added to home exercises (HE) with sham-KT and HE alone in the treatment of mild or moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in terms of pain, symptom severity, function, grip strength, and electrophysiological parameters.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 35 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •pain or numbness radiating to the palm for at least 6 weeks,
- •at least one positive Tinel's, Phalen's, or carpal compression test on physical examination, and
- •mild/moderate CTS on EMG examination.
排除标准
- •Metabolic disease (diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease),
- •systemic or malignant disease, history of trauma, fracture or surgery to the wrist,
- •physical therapy programs, surgical procedures, injections or KT applications to the wrist for CTS treatment in the past year,
- •severe thenar atrophy,
- •C6-C7 radiculopathy among CTS differential diagnoses,
- •cervical spondylosis, thoracic outlet syndrome, entrapment of the median nerve above the wrist,
- •polyneuropathy or traumatic injury to the median nerve,
- •rashes or open wounds on the skin of the wrist and forearm that could prevent treatment with kinesiology taping
结局指标
主要结局
Pain Evaluation
时间窗: 5 minutes
A 10-point visual analog scale (VAS) was used to rate pain. Patients were asked to rate the pain they felt at rest, at night, and with movement with a number ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (very severe), VAS movement, VAS night, and VAS rest
Finger Strength
时间窗: 10 minutes
A pinch meter (Baseline ® hydraulic pinch gauge, Irvington, NY, USA) was used to evaluate lateral grip strength (LGS) and pinch grip strength
Electrodiagnostic Evaluation
时间窗: 30 minutes
Superficial recording electrodes were placed in the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscles (recording stimulus distance 5 cm) for median nerve motor conduction and in the abductor digiti minimi (ADM) muscles (recording stimulus distance 5 cm) for ulnar nerve motor conduction.Superficial recording electrodes were placed on the 3rd finger for median nerve sensory conduction (recording stimulus distance 13 cm) and on the 5th finger for ulnar nerve sensory conduction (recording stimulus distance 11 cm).The ground electrode was placed between the recording and stimulus electrodes for all electrophysiological tests.Sensory latency, amplitude, and conduction velocity of the median nerve and motor latency, amplitude, and conduction velocity were recorded
Hand Strength
时间窗: 10 minutes
A Jamar hand dynamometer (Baseline ® hydraulic hand dynamometer, Irvington, NY, USA) was used to measure handgrip strength.
次要结局
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