Treatment for Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

Treatments: Procedure: decompression

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00184158

056-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The researchers want to find out the best treatment for cubital tunnel. The researchers establish the degree of nerve compression and then the patients are randomised to different treatment alternatives, ranging from conservative to operative treatments.

The study is performed at 5 different hospitals in Norway.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with cubital tunnel syndrome

Exclusion criteria

• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Osteoarthrosis
• Varus or valgus deformities at elbow

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)