Three-dimensional Kinematic Motion Analysis of Finger and Wrist During Daily Activities

University of Zurich (UZH)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hand Injuries

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02890862

KEK-ZH-Nr. 2015-0395

Details and patient eligibility

About

Development of reliable and objective evaluation methods is required for natural upper-extremity tasks. Three-dimensional imaging measurement techniques are a powerful tool for quantitative assessment of multijoint movements.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Volunteers of 20 healthy, right dominant hands
10 patients with tendon pathologies
10 patients with Dupuytren disease
10 patients with osteoarthritis of the wrist
Patients older than 18 years
Patient willing and able to give written informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

Inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
Pregnant women
German language barrier to complete the questionnaires
Any disease process that would preclude accurate evaluation (e.g. neuromuscular, psychiatric or metabolic disorder)
Legal incompetence
Participation in any other medical device or medicinal product study within the previous months that could influence the results of the present study