A Prospective Randomized Trial of Static-Progressive Versus Dynamic Splinting for Post-Traumatic Elbow Stiffness

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-traumatic Stiff Elbows

Treatments: Device: Dynamic Splint; Device: Static-Progressive Splint

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01241916

2003P001441

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary Question: "When splinting is used to improve motion in post-traumatic stiff elbows, is there a significant difference in gains in motion achieved between static progressive or dynamic splint approaches?"

Secondary Question: "Is there a significant difference in patient compliance with static progressive versus dynamic splint use, and does this effect final ulnohumeral motion outcomes?"

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult patients with post-traumatic elbow contractures in the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at Massachusetts General Hospital are eligible to for enrollment in this study regardless of sex, race or ethnicity.

Exclusion criteria

• Only English speaking patients will be eligible for the study since questionnaires have not been validated in other languages.

  • Vulnerable populations will not be recruited.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

Static-progressive splint

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Static-Progressive Splint

Dynamic Splint

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Dynamic Splint