Functional Splint for Osteoarthritis of the Trapeziometacarpal Joint

Federal University of São Paulo

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Other: Splint

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00612248

CEP1090/03

UNIFESP0108

Details and patient eligibility

About

Forty participants were enrolled in a randomized, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a functional thumb splint for trapeziometacarpal OA in the dominant hand.

Full description

Treatment, Randomized, Single Blind, Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

40+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

clinical and radiological diagnosis of idiopathic Grade II and III OA of the TMC joint on the dominant hand;
either gender;
over 40 years of age;
pain in the base of the thumb of the dominant hand greater than three and less than or equal to seven on the 0 to 10-cm visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain.

Exclusion criteria

severe deformities of the dominant hand that did not allow gripping between the first, second and third fingers;
deformities of distal interphalangeal joint;
use of a splint on the thumb in the previous six months;
surgery on the hand under study in the previous six months or scheduled in the upcoming six months;
allergy to the splint material;
incapacity to respond to the questionnaire and perform the tests;
geographic inaccessibility;
injections in the hand under study in the previous six months;
other associated diseases such as carpal tunnel syndrome, fractures in the carpus, tendonitis, chronic inflammatory arthropathy;
alterations in the use of anti-inflammatory medication and analgesics in the previous three months.