Clinical trial NCT05496764: Local Injection of Steroid VS.Glucose 5% in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Official title: The Therapeutic Effect and Quality of Life After Local Injection of Steroid VS. Glucose 5% for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome : Double-blinded Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE4
Conditions: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Keywords: local injection
pain relief
steroid
glucose 5%
Lead sponsor: Assiut University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-08-11
Enrollment: 52
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: To assess pain relief and quality of life among patients with carpal tunnel syndrome after local steroid vs. glucose 5% injection.

Detailed description: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most prevalent type of peripheral nerve entrapment involving compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. 1 This condition is more common in females than in males. CTS may be unilateral or bilateral. It is a significant cause of morbidity and poor quality of life in those patients. There is deterioration in functional outcomes and maybe psychologically as well. The severity of CTS varied from mild to moderate to severe. Its signs and symptoms include numbness along with the median nerve distribution of the hand, pain, atrophy of muscles, handgrip weakness, etc. Mild or moderate cases are usually seeking conservative treatment like electrotherapeutic modalities, manual therapy interventions, oral supplements and medications, and wrist immobilizations such as splints. Severe cases are likely to go toward surgery. But most patients with CTS are reluctant to take the surgical choice, mainly because of financial issues and secondary complications. Therefore, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the non-surgical (conservative) therapies should be a major concern, as they are cost-effective and lacks secondary complications. Much research has been conducted to see the efficacy of various conservative therapies.

-study method: We are going to carry out a double-blinded randomized, case-controlled study on 52 patients who are randomly chosen and categorized them into 2 groups, 26 patients each. we planned to inject steroid( 4 mg of dexamethasone acetate combined with 1% lidocaine into the carpal tunnels) directly into the carpal tunnel in (group 1) and to inject 10 ml glucose 5% into the carpal tunnel for the other group (group 2).. All injections will be under sonographic guidance. Neurophysiology, U/S, pain scales, and quality of life scales studies will be performed for these two groups before treatment and after 12 weeks of injection. The patients will be followed up for 3 months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. female or male patient \> 18y
2. mild to moderate cases of carpal tunnel syndrome according to Bland's Neurophysiological Grading Scale for Patients with CTS
3. clear consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. age younger than 18y.
2. severe cases of CTS.
3. systemic diseases cause CTS .

Primary outcomes:
measure: the changes in visual analogue scale (pre - post- and follow up)
timeFrame: 14 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: -To evaluate the effect of sonar guided steroid vs. glucose 5% injection on U/S (pre-post and follow up).
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: To evaluate the effect of sonar guided steroid vs. glucose 5% injection on neurophysiological studies (pre-post and follow up).
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Assiut
country: Egypt
facility: Assiut University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Eman MH Khedr
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Khaled O Aboshaera
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Assiut University
name: Aml MA Tohami
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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