Adding Shock Wave Therapy to Kinesio Taping Improves Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Physical Therapist Females.

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• Conditions: Physiopathology
• Interventions: Device: Shockwave; Other: Kinesio taping; Other: conventional physical therapy

• Registration Number: NCT06214286
• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University

Brief Summary

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping on relieving carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms in physical therapist females.

BACKGROUND: shockwave therapy is a popular non-invasive therapeutic modality in the medical field for the treatment of numerous musculoskeletal disorders. Shockwaves can generate interstitial and extracellular responses, producing many beneficial effects such as: pain relief, vascularization, protein biosynthesis, cell proliferation, neuro and chondroprotection, and destruction of calcium deposits in musculoskeletal structures. shockwave combined with conventional physiotherapy is an effective noninvasive treatment for mild-to-moderate carpal tunnel syndrome that produces greater and longer-lasting results than conventional physiotherapy alone HYPOTHESES: Adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping has positive effects on carpal tunnel syndrome in physical therapist females.

RESEARCH QUESTION: Does adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping has positive effects on carpal tunnel syndrome in physical therapist females?

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-01-17
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-19
• Study Start: 2024-03-20
• Status Verified: 2024-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-08-07
• Last Update Posted: 2024-08-09
• Primary Completion: 2024-10-01
• Study Completion: 2024-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients aged between 20 and 40 years
• diagnosed as having mild and moderate carpal tunnel syndrome through clinical parameters and nerve conduction studies (NCSs),

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Exclusion Criteria

• Having any systemic diseases such as renal failure, peptic ulcer, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, coagulopathy, inflammatory rheumatic disease, having a cardiac pacemaker, cervical radiculopathy, polyneuropathy or brachial plexopathy, systemic corticosteroid use, fracture or trauma history in the forearm and wrist pregnancy and lactation, having received a carpal tunnel syndrome surgery, thoracic outlet syndrome or severe carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Shockwave	Shockwave	One group received shock wave therapy with the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping
Shockwave	conventional physical therapy	One group received shock wave therapy with the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping
conventional	conventional physical therapy	conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping without shock wave therapy
conventional	Kinesio taping	conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping without shock wave therapy
Shockwave	Kinesio taping	One group received shock wave therapy with the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain Visual Analog Scale	1 and 12 week	It is a self reported outcome which is a 10 cm line with zero at one end indicating no pain and 10 at the other end indicating maximum pain. Patient will be asked to mark the current pain on the scale and the distance from the starting point (0) will be measured

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
electrodiagnostic study for median nerve	1 and 12 week	Sensory distal latency and motor distal latency of the median nerve will be measured by electromyography device according to standard protocol ( sensory distal latency stimulated at wrist and recorded 14cm at middle finger) and motor distal latency was stimulated at wrist and recorded from abductor pollicis brevis muscle.
Numbness Visual Analog Scale	1 and 12 week	It is self reported outcome, which is a 10 cm line with zero at one end indicating no numbness and 10 at the other end indicating maximum numbness.Patient will be asked to mark the current numbness on the scale, and the distance from the starting point (0) will be measured
handgrip strength	1 and 12 week	hand grip strength will be measured by a hand held dynamometer Participants will be instructed to grip the dynamometer as strongly as they possibly can, using their affected hand. Three measurements will be taken and the highest value will be used in the analysis
Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire	1 and 12 week	a Questionnaire widely used for assessing function and/or symptoms in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. It consists of two separate scales: the Symptom Severity Scale (SSS), which consists of 11 questions and the Functional Status Scale (FSS), which consists of 8 items and requires respondents to score the difficulty of each item on a five-point scale. A final score is calculated for each scale (the sum of the individual scores divided by the number of items) and ranges from 1 to 5, with a higher score indicating a more severe handicap.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Badr University in Cairo (BUC); 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt