Two Treatment for a Mallet Finger of Tendinous Origin

Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Mallet Finger

Treatments: Procedure: custom thermoplastic orthosis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03899363

SAHoWMU-CR2018-08-417

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized clinical trial, with patients treated either by a custom thermoplastic orthosis or by the Kirschner wire with the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint extended.

Evaluating the treatment efficacy of the operation management compared with a conventional orthosis.

Enrollment: 48 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of a mallet finger, with or without fracture;
• Age≥18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Open lesions
• Mallet fractures with subluxation of the DIP
• Delays in treatment >2 weeks
• DM
• RA

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

surgery

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: custom thermoplastic orthosis

custom thermoplastic orthosis

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: custom thermoplastic orthosis