Effect of Virtual Reality on treatment experience with carpal tunnel - & triggerfingerrelease: a randomized controlled trial

Conditions: Triggerfinger syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome

Registration Number: NL-OMON24719

Lead Sponsor: o funding

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

All patients who visited the outpatient clinic and were diagnosed with either carpal tunnel syndrome or triggerfiger of a single digit and suitable for undergoing wide awake local anesthetic surgery were asked to participate in this study.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria were severe hand disorders in which local anesthesia would not be sufficient (i.e. wrist surgery), motion sickness, unwillingness to wear bands around the head, patients younger than 18 years old or patients with claustrofobia

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Multiple outcomes were measured, of which all were measured both peri-operatively, direct post-operatively as well as 2 weeks post-operatively. We divided the outcome measures in three groups: Patient reported outcomes (PROMS), Patient reported experience outcomes (PREMS) and objective outcomes. Below we will elaborate on these different sets of outcomes.<br>PROMS<br>We measured pain, fun, nausea and relaxation using a 0-10 Likert Scale during peri-operatively and direct post-operatively. In addition, we asked patients to fill in the PHQ-4 questionaire for anxiety peri-operatively and direct post-operatively. <br>Furthermore, patients were asked to fill in the Michigan hand questionnaire/DASH at 2 weeks post-operatively. <br>PREMS<br>CQ-index was asked to be filled in after two weeks post-operatively to assess what the overall experience was the given treatment.<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures