the effect of splinting and exercises on swelling of the nerve in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

The effect of nerve and tendon gliding exercises and splinting on median nerve oedema in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12611000690954

Acronym

Enrollment

Registered

2011-07-07

Start date

2009-04-30

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study will investigate whether nerve and tendon gliding exercises or splinting are capable of reducing swelling intra- as well as extraneurally in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.

Interventions

Patietns are randomly allocated to one of two interventional groups: nerve and tendon gliding exercises: Ten repetitions of six different exercises are performed per session. One session takes approximately 2 minutes to complete. Participants are asked to complete 10 sessions per day for one week. splinting: patients are wearing a wrist splint at night for one week.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

carpal tunnel syndrome

Exclusion criteria

Systemic inflammatory diseases Diabetes mellitus Metal implants Previous wrist surgery or wrist fracture Traumatic onset of CTS Cervical radiculopathy or other neuropathy of the upper limb/neck Pregnancy associated CTS (or thought to be pregnant as MRI is a relative contraindication) Pending litigation Claustrophobia (MRI)

Outcome results