The Placebo-Controlled Continuous And Pulsed Ultrasound Treatments on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome : A Randomised Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 46
- 主要终点
- Change From Baseline in Symptom Severity With Symptom Severity Scale
研究概览
简要总结
The aim of this placebo-controlled study was to evaluate the effects of pulsed and continuous ultrasound treatments combined with splint therapy on patients with mild and moderate idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome
详细描述
The study included 36 carpal tunnel syndrome patients who were randomly divided into 3 groups.The first group received 0 W/cm2 placebo ultrasound treatment. second group received 1.0 W/cm2 continuous ultrasound treatment and the third group received 1.0 W/cm2 1:4 pulsed ultrasound treatment 5 days a week for a total of 15 sessions. All patients were also treated with night splints during the treatment. Pretreatment and posttreatment Visual Analogue Scale scores, Symptom Severity Scale scores, Functional Status Scale scores, median nerve motor conduction velocity. and distal latency and sensory conduction velocity of median nerve in the 2nd finger and palm were compared.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Factorial
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Mild or moderate idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome (without thenar atrophy or spontaneous activity on electrophysiological examination of the abductor pollicis brevis (APB) muscle)
排除标准
- •Secondary entrapment neuropathies
- •Cervical radiculopathy
- •Systemic diseases with increased risk of the carpal tunnel syndrome
- •Gained surgical relief of the syndrome
- •Treated with ultrasound for the syndrome
- •A history of steroid injections into the carpal tunnel and of physical therapy within the last 3 months
- •Patients with either thenar atrophy or spontaneous activity (fibrillation potentials and positive sharp waves) on electrophysiological examination
结局指标
主要结局
Change From Baseline in Symptom Severity With Symptom Severity Scale
时间窗: three weeks
Post treatment comparison of Symptom Severity Scale between three groups minimum score is 11, maximum score is 55. The clinic of patient worses when the score increases.
次要结局
- Change From Baseline in Pain With Visual Analogue Scale(Three weeks)
- Change From Baseline in Functional Status With Functional Status Scale(Three weeks)
- Changes From Baseline Nervus Medianus Motor Conduction Velocity(Three weeks)
研究者
Onur Armağan
Onur Armagan MD
Eskisehir Osmangazi University