Conservative Treatment of Mallet Finger Injury

Orthopaedic Specialty Group PC, Fairfield

Status: Completed

Conditions: Conservatively Treated Mallet Finger Injury

Treatments: Other: Immobilization type for mallet injury

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04830917

SVMC 17-328

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparing outcomes of individuals treated with Kinesiotape and oval 8 versus quick cast for a conservatively managed mallet finger injury. Outcomes include DIP joint extension lag, patient satisfaction and function via the MHQ.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• determined by a physician to require conservative treatment for a mallet finger injury, at least 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• previous injury to the involved digit impacting ROM

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment with Kinesiotape and Oval 8

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Immobilization type for mallet injury

Treatment with quick cast

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Immobilization type for mallet injury