Safety and effectiveness of fluoroscopy-guided acupotomy for carpal tunnel syndrome
- Conditions
- Diseases of the musculo-skeletal system and connective tissue
- Registration Number
- KCT0003067
- Lead Sponsor
- Wonkwang University, Gwangju Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 38
? 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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Allevation of pain measured by Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement of Nerve conduction velocity(NCV) test;Improvement of Tinel test;Improvement of Phalen’s test;EuroQol-5D(EQ-5D);Cross-section area of medial nerve measured by ultrasonography;Boston Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Questionnaire(BCTQ) score;Vital sign;Electrocardiography;Blood test, general chemical test, urine test;Grip strength test