Post-Operative Splinting After Short-Incision Carpal Tunnel Release: a Prospective Study

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

In brief

This research study is for patients who are schedule to have carpal tunnel release surgery. The investigators have developed this study in order to determine if post-operative splinting is effective in improvement of patient outcomes after this surgical procedure. The study is being conducted under the direction of Huey Tien, MD. The purpose of this study is to determine if post-operative splinting is effective in improving patient outcomes after having short-incision carpal tunnel release. The investigators will randomize each patient into group 1, splinting after surgery or group 2 no splinting after surgery. Each group will have the same outcome measurements done to determine the best outcome of the two groups.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01897272

Run by

Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery

People needed

40

Starts

2012-09-01

Expected to finish

2019-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-01-25

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients who were diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome and are going to receive nerve decompression with short incision
• The Criteria of CTS
• Numbness, tingling, pain and night symptoms in median nerve distribution
• Positive Tinel signs over the median nerve at the Carpal Tunnel
• Negative Tinel signs at the Supraclavicular and Infraclavicular areas
• Positive Carpal Tunnel Tests
• Electrophysiological changes (confirmed with NCT)
• Over the age of 18
• Ability to give informed consent to participate in a research study

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with peripheral neuropathy of the median nerve secondary to trauma, external compressions (tumours, bone malunion) or other non-compressive causes.
• Patients with the presence of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (Tinel must be negative at the Supraclavicular and Infraclavicular areas)
• Patients with the presence of Cervical Disc disease
• Patients with another site of compression (such as pronator teres compression)
• Patients who have had previous carpal tunnel release on the same hand
• Patients under the age of 18

Where it is running

• Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery — Louisville, Kentucky, United States (enrolling)
• Kleinert, Kutz & Associates — Louisville, Kentucky, United States (enrolling)

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