Clinical and Electrophysiological Evaluation of the Effectiveness for Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Manual Lymphatic Drainage; Electrophysical Evaluation; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Splint treatment; Other: manual lymphatic drainage (massage)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05394870

2022-03.02

Details and patient eligibility

About

When the other usage areas of the manual lymphatic drainage technique in the literature, except for the treatment of lymphedema, were examined recently, it was seen that it was also applied in orthopedic and neurological cases in a limited number of studies. The aim of our study is to investigate the effectiveness of manual lymphatic drainage on clinical and electrophysiological findings in carpal tunnel syndrome

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome on electrodiagnostic examination
• Being between 20-55 years old
• Volunteering to participate in the treatment to be given

Exclusion criteria

• Have a systemic inflammatory disease
• Having any disease that may cause polyneuropathy, such as diabetes mellitus
• Cognitive impairment
• Receiving psychotherapy
• Having a pacemaker
• illiterate
• Having a disease affecting the central nervous system
• Having a hearing problem
• Any skin disease that would contraindicate manual lymphatic drainage
• Arterial or venous circulation disorder that would contraindicate manual lymphatic drainage

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

study group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: manual lymphatic drainage (massage)

Other: Splint treatment

control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Splint treatment