Dequervain's tenosynovitis is a condition which involves tendon entrapmentaffecting the first dorsal compartment of wrist. In ths condition thickening of tendon sheath around abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis, which leads to irritation of muscles, causing pain and swelling over the radial side of wrist in patients alon with an increased difficulty in gripping obejcts.. Radial styloid tenosynovitis [de Quervain]
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: Routine physical therapy (Theraputic Ultrasound, TENS, icing) Patient in this study group will get 25 minutes session, thrice weekly for 4 weeks. Therapeutic ultra
Sponsors
University of Lahore
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
20 Years to 60 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Both genders age between 20-60 Patients diagnosed with Dequervains tenosynovitis having unilateral symptoms more than 1 week pre-diagnosed patients reffered by orthopedics finklein's test positive
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: patients with history of fracture patients with inflammatory or other specific disorder of hand such as rheumatoid arthritis dislocation surgery history of wrist injection acute trauma symptomatic ilateral radiculopathy presence of any of red flag related to hand or arm
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pain. Timepoint: 1st day before treatment, at 7th session and on day of 15th session(after last treatment session). Method of measurement: pain is measured by visual analogue scale. 0-100 points are given on scale. scoring for that scale is as given below: No pain (0 – 4 mm)Mild pain (5– 44mm)Moderate pain (45–74 mm)Severe pain (75–100 mm). Patients are asked to fill this according to their pain , if they have no pain then 0 or 0-4mm, if they have mild pain then fill 5-44mm ,if have moderate pain (45-74mm) and if they have severe pain then fill 75-100mm.;Functional disability. Timepoint: 1st day before treatment, at 7th session and on day of 15th session(after last treatment session). Method of measurement: Functional disability is measured by Quick Dash score. QuickDASH-9 SCORE = [(sum of final score) x 1.1] x 5/2, a missing response is added as the average of the remaining. score between 0-25 no disability, 26-50 mild disability, 51-75 moderate disability, 76-100 severe disability. a scale score, ranging from 0 (no disability) to 100 (most severe disability), can be calculated.;Range of motion. Timepoint: 1st day before treatment, at 7th session and on day of 15th session(after last treatment session). Method of measurement: Goniometer . Goniometer is placed on hand nd ask patient to extend the thumb. | — |
Countries
Pakistan
Contacts
Public ContactSana Manzoor
University of Lahore
Outcome results
None listed