The Relationship Between Age and Carpal Tunnel Size

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Carpal Tunnel

Treatments: Procedure: Ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03294733

17-002345

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators hypothesis is that as human age increases, the size of the carpal tunnel decreases.

Full description

Participants will be taken to a hand examination room where a portable ultrasound (US) machine is present. A previously determined wrist will be examined for each of the participants. The US will be used to obtain measurements of the subjects carpal tunnel and median nerve at multiple levels in order to define its size.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Greater than age 18 having bilateral wrists amenable to ultrasound examination.

Exclusion criteria

• Active carpal tunnel syndrome,
• history of carpal tunnel syndrome
• any prior arm or hand surgery (including previous carpal tunnel release for any reason or previous surgery on the volar wrist)
• distal radius fracture deformity
• rheumatoid arthritis
• open wounds or lesions of the hand or forearm
• known congenital deformities of the upper extremity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Ultrasound

Other group

Description:

Ultrasound wrists to determine carpal tunnel size

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound