Ulnar Wrist Pain Treatment With Dextrose Prolotherapy

Universidad Abierta Interamericana

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Ulnar Wrist Pain

Treatments: Other: Usual Care; Procedure: Dextrose

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03411811

UniversidadAI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants who have failed therapy for chronic wrist pain on the little finger side of the wrist will recieve dextrose prolotherapy. Their results will be compared to a cohort of consecutive participants who have not failed therapy, and receive 4 weeks of usual care.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

• Pain on the ulnar side of the wrist.
• PRWE greater than 40

Exclusion criteria

• Radioulnar instability more than moderate as determined by a positive ulna fovea sign or ulna grinding test
• Surgery in the wrist area
• Infection in the wrist area
• Other wrist pathology on examination
• Other pain area that is constant, interferes with sleep, or is as bad, or worse, than shoulder pain.
• Diabetes or other peripheral neuropathy
• Radiculopathy
• Unstable psychiatric function.
• Current opioid use.
• Vulnerable patients
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Usual Care

Dextrose

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Dextrose