Post-Operative Splinting After Short-Incision Carpal Tunnel Release: a Prospective Study
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Official title
Post-Operative Splinting After Short-Incision Carpal Tunnel Release: a Prospective, Randomized Study
Brief summary
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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.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01897272
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 40 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Aug 31, 2012
- Primary completion
- Aug 31, 2019
- Completion
- Aug 31, 2019
- Last update posted
- Jan 24, 2018
2012 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery | Louisville | Kentucky | 40202 | Recruiting |
| Kleinert, Kutz & Associates | Louisville | Kentucky | 40202 | Recruiting |
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