De Quervain Disease
Conditions
Brief summary
There is no study in the literature comparing both paraffin bath therapy and Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) in the treatment of patients with De Quervain Tenosynovitis. The aim of this study is performing this comparison.
Interventions
DEVICEParaffin Bath Therapy
Device named 'Fizyowax 1300' (Fizyomed, Turkey).
DEVICEExtracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy
Device named 'Elettronica Pagani,Italy' and will be used with radial probe.
Sponsors
Yuzuncu Yil University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Being 18 years or older * Meeting De Quervain diagnostic criteria * Not having applied any physical therapy modality to the hand-wrist in the last 1 month * Not using pain medication in the last 1 month, * Not using local anesthetics or steroid injections on the hand-wrist in the last 3 months * Have received written consent to participate in the study, and have come to the last control at the 6th week.
Exclusion criteria
* Neurological diseases (especially neuropathies), * Malignancy, * Rheumatological diseases * Pregnancy * History of hand/wrist fracture or surgery * Hand/wrist trauma in the last 1 month * Coagulation disorder diseases
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) | at baseline (before the treatment) | patient's self-assessment of pain, in the range of 0 to 10, higher scores mean a worse |
| Duruöz Hand Index (DHI) | at baseline (before the treatment) | Duruöz Hand Index (DHI) is a functional disability scale that can be used successfully to assess the functional disability with different hand arthropathies. It consists of 18 items that evaluate hand and wrist activities. The answers are evaluated on a 6-level (0-5) Likert scale and the total score ranges from 0 to 90. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed