Corticosteroid Injection in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-12-20
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To compare the effectiveness of different dose of ultrasound guided steroid injection in patient with carpal tunnel syndrome, by using clinical and electrophysiological parameters in evlauation

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Treatments: Lidocaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of CTS

• The diagnosis of CTS was confirmed by electrophysiological tests.

Exclusion Criteria:

• presence of thenar atrophy

• existence of disorders such as hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, or rheumatoid arthritis; any accompanying orthopedic or neurologic disorders that could mimic CTS such as cervical radiculopathy, polyneuropathy, proximal median nerve entrapment, or thoracic outlet syndrome

• prior steroid injection into the affected carpal tunnel within 6 months or ever received carpal tunnel surgery

• history of distal radius fracture

• pregnancy or lactation

• regular use of systemic NSAIDs ,corticosteroids or diuretics

• known allergy to corticosteroids and local anesthetics.

• impaired cognitive function