Mallet Finger Splinting Study

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mallet Finger

Treatments: Procedure: night splinting

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01388751

2008P001506

Details and patient eligibility

About

Do patients that night splint for 1 month after 6-8 weeks of continuous splinting for a mallet injury have the same extensor lag 4 months after initiating treatment as patients that do not perform night splinting?

Secondary Question: Is night splinting a predictor of DASH score or patient satisfaction (on a 5-Point Likert scale)?

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult, English-speaking patients in the practice of Dr. Jesse Jupiter, Dr. Chaitanya Mudgal, or Dr. David Ring electing splint treatment for mallet deformity will be invited to enroll on their follow-up visit 6-8 weeks after initiating splint treatment.

Exclusion criteria

1. Open lesions
2. Mallet fracture more than 2 weeks old
3. Mallet fracture with subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

no night splinting

No Intervention group

night splinting

Active Comparator group

Description:

Night Splinting for 4 weeks after removal of initial cast

Treatment:

Procedure: night splinting