The SToICAL Study - The Soft Tissue Injection of Corticosteroid And Local Anaesthetic Study

• Status: Suspended
• Trial end date: 2022-08-26
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Some hand conditions can be treated with a steroid injection. Some doctors mix the steroid with local anaesthetic in the hope that the patient will experience less pain after the injection. Some doctors do not do this. It is not known if adding local anaesthetic to the steroid improves patient's pain after the injection.

The overall aim of the study is to see whether using local anaesthetic in the steroid injection makes a difference to patients' pain. If the study shows that using local anaesthetic improves patients' pain then the investigators should continue using it. If not, the investigators should stop giving patients unnecessary medication, which would also save the NHS time and money.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female ages >/= 18 years

• A clinical diagnosis of trigger finger, de Quervains tenosynovitis or carpal tunnel syndrome made by a consultant physician.

• Treatment with corticosteroid injection is recommended by the doctor and agreed by the patient

• Patient is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous surgery for the condition being treated at the desired location of injection

• Previous steroid injection for the condition being treated at the desired location of injection

• Clinical suspicion of local or systematic sepsis or infection

• History of hypersensitivity to the corticosteroid or local anaesthetic

• Pregnant or breast-feeding females

• Unable to understand and complete self-report questionnaires written in English