Dorsovolar Kinesiotape in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment

Treatments: Other: home exercises; Other: kinesiotape

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05997823

2023/11-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to compare the short- and medium-term efficacy of dorso-volar kinesiotape (KT) added to home exercises (HE) with sham-KT and HE alone in the treatment of mild or moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in terms of pain, symptom severity, function, grip strength, and electrophysiological parameters.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• pain or numbness radiating to the palm for at least 6 weeks,
• at least one positive Tinel's, Phalen's, or carpal compression test on physical examination, and
• mild/moderate CTS on EMG examination.

Exclusion criteria

• Metabolic disease (diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease),
• systemic or malignant disease, history of trauma, fracture or surgery to the wrist,
• physical therapy programs, surgical procedures, injections or KT applications to the wrist for CTS treatment in the past year,
• severe thenar atrophy,
• C6-C7 radiculopathy among CTS differential diagnoses,
• cervical spondylosis, thoracic outlet syndrome, entrapment of the median nerve above the wrist,
• polyneuropathy or traumatic injury to the median nerve,
• rashes or open wounds on the skin of the wrist and forearm that could prevent treatment with kinesiology taping

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

home exercises

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: home exercises

sham-KT and home exercises

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: home exercises

Other: kinesiotape

dorso-volar KT and home exercises

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: home exercises

Other: kinesiotape