Safety and effectiveness of fluoroscopy-guided acupotomy for carpal tunnel syndrome; a randomized, patient-assessor blind, parallel clinical trial

Wonkwang University, Gwangju Medical Center0 个研究点目标入组 38 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2019年3月11日

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•? Male and female aged 20 to 69
•? Having numbness, tingling, nyctalgia symptom in the hand area with VAS over 5
•? Positive in Tinel’s sign or Phalen’s sign
•? Cross-section area of medial nerve over 10mm2 measured by ultrasonography

•? Patients who had surgery for treating carpal tunnel syndrome.
•? Patients who has physical abnormality in carpal tunnel such as tumor or malunion.
•? Patients who are taking medicine related to mental disorder, immune disease, or diabetes.
•? Patients who are taking adrenocortical hormone or nonsteroidal inflammatory analgesic to treat carpal tunnel syndrome. In case of taking inflammatory analgesic, the patient has to stop taking the medicine 1 week prior to enroll in the study.
•? Patients who has skin allergy or skin infection.
•? Patients who are insulin-treated diabetic patient, has cardiovascular disease or wearing a pacemaker, or has kindney disease.
•? Pregnant women, lactating women, who are positive in pregnancy test before random allocation, and who do not agree to use medically appropriate contraceptives (e.g., oral medication, hormone implants, intrauterine devices, condoms, or spermicides)
•? Patients deemed by a clinical research investigator to be inappropriate for participation in the clinical trial

发起方

Wonkwang University, Gwangju Medical Center