Mallet Finger Splinting Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Mallet Finger

In brief

Do patients that night splint for 1 month after 6-8 weeks of continuous splinting for a mallet injury have the same extensor lag 4 months after initiating treatment as patients that do not perform night splinting? Secondary Question: Is night splinting a predictor of DASH score or patient satisfaction (on a 5-Point Likert scale)?

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01388751

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

52

Starts

2008-11-01

Expected to finish

2012-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-10-31

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All adult, English-speaking patients in the practice of Dr. Jesse Jupiter, Dr. Chaitanya Mudgal, or Dr. David Ring electing splint treatment for mallet deformity will be invited to enroll on their follow-up visit 6-8 weeks after initiating splint treatment.

You may not qualify if…

• Open lesions
• Mallet fracture more than 2 weeks old
• Mallet fracture with subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint.

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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