Effect of Acupressure on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Pregnant Women
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 50
- 主要终点
- Assessment of pain severity
研究概览
简要总结
This study will be conducted to investigate the effect of acupressure on carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women.
详细描述
The pregnant women are more prone to develop carpal tunnel syndrome because they retain more fluid during the later stages of their pregnancies. The more fluid retained , the more swelling occurs , squeezing the nerves that run through the hand and finger. Also most women who experience pain, numbness and tingling in the hand for the first time due to pregnancy have no idea that they have carpal tunnel syndrome.
Given the importance of treating CTS and preventing the limitations caused by this syndrome, and since it can turn into a debilitating disease if left untreated, acupressure can be recommended as a safe and noninvasive technique for reducing the severity of clinical symptoms.
Till now, there is no previous studies explored the effect of acupressure on carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women. So, this study will be conducted to provide new information about the efficacy of acupressure in management of carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women, which will help such pregnant women to overcome this problem and will add new evidence to the field of physical therapy.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 35 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Pregnant women who are clinically diagnosed as having carpal tunnel syndrome .
- •Their age will be ranged from 20 to 35years old.
- •Their body mass index will not exceed 30kg/m
- •All of them are in their 3rd trimester of pregnancy.(28-40weeks)
- •All of them suffer from mild and moderate CTS.
- •Degree of carpal tunnel pain will be 2 or more on Visual Analogue scale.
排除标准
- •Dermatological abnormalities in the skin of acupionts.
- •Internal fixation at the area of acupressure application.
- •Smokers .
- •Metabolic diseases such as Diabetes mellitus.
- •Females who had history of fracture or trauma to the hand .
结局指标
主要结局
Assessment of pain severity
时间窗: 12 weeks
The pain intensity will be assessed for all participants in both groups before and after treatment through VAS. It is a 10 cm horizontal line on which the participant's pain intensity will be represented by a point between the extremes of "no pain at all" and "worst imaginable pain". Each participant will be asked to mark a point on a VAS line between the extremes that related to her current pain intensity
median nerve conduction study
时间窗: 12 weeks
Computerized Electromyography (Dantce): ATOENINIES neuro screen system will be used to perform median nerve conduction study before and after the treatment program for all participants in both groups
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Bassant Hesham Ahmed
Principal investigator
Cairo University