Kinesiotaping Therapy for Clavicular Fractures FRACTURES:

Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascıoglu Education and Research Hospital Organization

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Clavicle Fracture

Treatments: Procedure: Kinesiotaping therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04622137

Kinesiotaping Therapy

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a multicenter prospective randomized controlled study. Forty patients in whom conservative treatment for clavicle midshaft fractures was indicated between January 2018 and July 2019 were included.

The investigators aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the kinesiotaping technique for the conservative treatment of clavicle midshaft fractures. The investigators hypothesized that kinesiotaping reduces the disadvantages of conservative treatment, such as early-phase pain, high nonunion rates, and a prolonged time to return to work, and yields better clinical and functional outcomes by providing good mechanical support and neutralizing the deforming muscle forces around the fractured clavicle.

Full description

The investigators divided into 2 groups and followed one group of patients with clavicle fractures only with shoulder sling, while the other group were followed with kinesiotherapy treatment and shoulder arm sling. They investigated the effect of kinesiotherapy treatment on early pain and returning time to work.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Participants with midclavicle fracture within 24 hours

Exclusion criteria

Participants with open fractures,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm sling only group (group S)

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants used only arm sling for clavicula fracture

Arm sling with kinesiotaping therapy group (group K).

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants used arm sling and the investigators applied kinesiotheraphy for clavicula fracture

Treatment:

Procedure: Kinesiotaping therapy