Sonography-guided Steroid Injection for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Purpose: To compare the outcome between sonography-guided steroid injection and direct steroid injection on carpal tunnel syndrome(CTS).

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
• Treatments: Betamethasone; Betamethasone benzoate; Betamethasone sodium phosphate; Betamethasone Valerate; Betamethasone-17,21-dipropionate; Glucocorticoids

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• with >2 following symptoms :

1. disrupt sleep result in nocturnal paresthesia.

2. symptoms release by shaking hand.

3. pain and paresthesia during grasping.

4. any sensory symptom on first, 2th, 3th and partial 4th fingers.

• symptoms >1month.

• Padua's classification : minimal, mild, moderate)

• meet one of three diagnosis criteria of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Exclusion Criteria:

• any history can cause periphery nerve disease.

• affected side had fracture or paralysis.

• had accepted operation for carpal tunnel syndrome before.

• pregnant

• wrist or hand sprain, ulnar nerve disease cervical nerve root disease, multiple neuropathy or nerve anastomosis.

• Padua's classification: severe, extreme.

• ultrasonography show space occupying.

• patient taking anticoagulants.

• severe systemic disease.

• wrist's skin or wrist joint has infection.

• can't complete the 6 months' follow up.

• allergy to steroid.

• has cognition disorder.