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UnknownNCT03411811
Ulnar Wrist Pain Treatment With Dextrose Prolotherapy
Dextrose Prolotherapy in Chronic Ulnar Wrist Pain Resistant to Usual Care: Comparison to a Naive-to-treatment Cohort Who Receive Usual Care
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Universidad Abierta Interamericana · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 21 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
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.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Usual Care | Therapeutic ultrasound, myofascial release of extensor and flexor muscles of forearm and stabilization exercises for the wrist. |
| PROCEDURE | Dextrose | Injection of 1 ml of 12.5% dextrose in 1% lidocaine at 0, 3 and 6 weeks in 5 locations: Origin of ulnar collateral ligament, insertion of ulnar collateral ligament on the triquetrum, insertion of the extensor carpi ulnaris on the base of the 5th metacarpal, triquetral hamate ligament and ulnotriquetral joint space. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2022-01-01
- Completion
- 2023-01-01
- First posted
- 2018-01-26
- Last updated
- 2021-05-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Argentina
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03411811. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.