Adding Shock Wave Therapy to Kinesio Taping Improves Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Physical Therapist Females.

NCT06214286 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: BUCN1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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?

Conditions

Physiopathology

Keywords

Shockwave; Carpel tunnel

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pain Visual Analog Scale

  It is a self reported outcome which is a 10 cm line with zero at one end indicating no pain and 10 at the other end indicating maximum pain. Patient will be asked to mark the current pain on the scale and the distance from the starting point (0) will be measured

  1 and 12 week

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Numbness Visual Analog Scale

  1 and 12 week

• Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire

  1 and 12 week

• handgrip strength

  1 and 12 week

• electrodiagnostic study for median nerve

  1 and 12 week

Study Arms (2)

Shockwave

EXPERIMENTAL

One group received shock wave therapy with the conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping

Device: Shockwave; Other: Kinesio taping; Other: conventional physical therapy

conventional

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

conventional physical therapy program including kinesio taping without shock wave therapy

Other: Kinesio taping; Other: conventional physical therapy

Interventions

Shockwave DEVICE

Shockwave therapy

Shockwave

Kinesio taping OTHER

Kinesio taping application

Shockwave; conventional

conventional physical therapy OTHER

conventional physical therapy

Shockwave; conventional

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 40 Years
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

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

You may not qualify if:

• \- 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University: lead
• Badr University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Badr University in Cairo (BUC)

Cairo, 12311, Egypt

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Omnya samy Abdallah Ghoneim, PhD

  Department of Physical Therapy for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt.

  STUDY CHAIR

• Mina Magdy Wahba, PhD

  Department of Physical Therapy for Orthpedics, Suez University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Fatma Said Zidan Hamed, PhD

  Department of Physical therapy for Neuromuscular Disorders & its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt

  STUDY CHAIR

• Hanaa Samir Mohamed Abd el fatah, PhD

  Faculty of Physical therapy, Modern University for Technology and Information, Egypt.

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Doha Hamed Moustafa Al-Afify, PhD

  Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Egypt

  STUDY CHAIR

• Doaa Saeed

  Department of Physical Therapy for Women's Health, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Mina Wahba, PhD

CONTACT

01285170876; mina.magdy@the.suezuni.edu.eg

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: 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.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 11, 2023
• First Posted: January 19, 2024
• Study Start: March 20, 2024
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2024
• Study Completion: November 1, 2024
• Last Updated: August 9, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

EG (1)