Clinical trial NCT06214286: Adding Shock Wave Therapy to Kinesio Taping Improves Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Physical Therapist Females.
Official title: Adding Shock Wave Therapy to Kinesio Taping Improves Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Physical Therapist Females. A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physiopathology
Keywords: Shockwave
Carpel tunnel
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Badr University
First posted: 2024-01-19
Enrollment: 100
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: A total of 100 females patients ( two groups each group 50 females) who were diagnosed as having mild or moderate carpal tunnel syndrome were included in the study. One group received shock wave therapy with the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping, the second group received the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping without shock wave therapy. The patients were evaluated using a Visual Analog Scale-pain, a Visual Analog Scale-numbness, the Boston Symptom Severity Scale, the Boston Functional Status Scale, and handgrip strength tests and Nerve conduction study before treatment 1 and 12 wks after the treatment.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping on relieving carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms in physical therapist females.

BACKGROUND: shockwave therapy is a popular non-invasive therapeutic modality in the medical field for the treatment of numerous musculoskeletal disorders. Shockwaves can generate interstitial and extracellular responses, producing many beneficial effects such as: pain relief, vascularization, protein biosynthesis, cell proliferation, neuro and chondroprotection, and destruction of calcium deposits in musculoskeletal structures. shockwave combined with conventional physiotherapy is an effective noninvasive treatment for mild-to-moderate carpal tunnel syndrome that produces greater and longer-lasting results than conventional physiotherapy alone HYPOTHESES: Adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping has positive effects on carpal tunnel syndrome in physical therapist females.

RESEARCH QUESTION: Does adding Shock wave therapy to kinesio taping has positive effects on carpal tunnel syndrome in physical therapist females?


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients aged between 20 and 40 years
* diagnosed as having mild and moderate carpal tunnel syndrome through clinical parameters and nerve conduction studies (NCSs),

Exclusion Criteria:

- Having any systemic diseases such as renal failure, peptic ulcer, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, coagulopathy, inflammatory rheumatic disease, having a cardiac pacemaker, cervical radiculopathy, polyneuropathy or brachial plexopathy, systemic corticosteroid use, fracture or trauma history in the forearm and wrist pregnancy and lactation, having received a carpal tunnel syndrome surgery, thoracic outlet syndrome or severe carpal tunnel syndrome.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pain Visual Analog Scale
timeFrame: 1 and 12 week
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Numbness Visual Analog Scale
timeFrame: 1 and 12 week
measure: Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire
timeFrame: 1 and 12 week
measure: handgrip strength
timeFrame: 1 and 12 week
measure: electrodiagnostic study for median nerve
timeFrame: 1 and 12 week
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cairo
country: Egypt
facility: Badr University in Cairo (BUC)
Study officials:
affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt.
name: Omnya samy Abdallah Ghoneim, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy for Orthpedics, Suez University
name: Mina Magdy Wahba, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Department of Physical therapy for Neuromuscular Disorders & its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt
name: Fatma Said Zidan Hamed, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Faculty of Physical therapy, Modern University for Technology and Information, Egypt.
name: Hanaa Samir Mohamed Abd el fatah, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt
name: Doha Hamed Moustafa Al-Afify, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Department of Physical Therapy for Women's Health, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
name: Doaa Saeed
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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