Efficacy of Combined Ultrasound Guided Steroid Injection and Splinting in Patients With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To compare the effectiveness of ultrasound guided-steroid injection plus splinting to that of steroid injection alone using clinical and electrophysiological parameters in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Treatments: Lidocaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. clinical diagnosis of CTS

2. The diagnosis of CTS was confirmed by electrophysiological tests.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. presence of thenar atrophy

2. existence of disorders such as hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, or rheumatoid arthritis; any accompanying orthopedic or neurologic disorders that could mimic CTS such as cervical radiculopathy, polyneuropathy, proximal median nerve entrapment, or thoracic outlet syndrome

3. prior steroid injection into the affected carpal tunnel or carpal tunnel surgery

4. history of distal radius fracture

5. pregnancy or lactation

6. regular use of systemic NSAIDs or corticosteroids

7. known allergy to corticosteroids and local anesthetics.