Treatment of subcpital fractures of the fifth metacarpal bone: functional treatment or splinting?
Completed
- Conditions
- boxer's fracturehandfracture10017322
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON33707
- Lead Sponsor
- Rode Kruis Ziekenhuis
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Patients from the age of 18 (male and female), with normal mental competence
and a closed subcapital fracture of the fifth metacarpal presenting on the ER.
Exclusion Criteria
open fractures
fractures with rotational deformity
fractures with an angulation by more than 70 degrees
age under 18 or incapacitated adults
pathological fractures
fractures older than 72 hours
re-fractures
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Clinical outcome, i.e. handfunction according to DASH-score</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Fracture healing (including malunion/nonunion)<br /><br>Range of motion of the fifth MCP joint, pulling strength of the fifth finger<br /><br>Pain<br /><br>Patient satisfaction<br /><br>Time till resumption of daily activities and work </p><br>