NCT03438864

Acute Effects of Interferential Current on Edema, Pain and Muscle Strength in Patients With Distal Radius Fracture

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ege University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Interferential current is a form of electrotherapy that is obtained by placing two different plates that produce medium frequency waveform current, resulting in a low frequency interferential waveform in deeper tissues. It was shown interferential current electrotherapy is beneficial for reduction of traumatic edema in tissues and pain control. Patients with conservatively managed distal radius fractures were recruited after casts are shed, and were treated with one session(30 minutes) of different protocols of interferential current electrotherapy. Before and after therapy, they were evaluated with volumetry, hand grip strength and visual analogue scale for pain.

Conditions

• Radius Fractures
• Edema
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Electrotherapy, interferential current	Interferential current, entry frequencies and beat frequencies were set differently in 2 groups, amplitude was individualized and increased until patients felt a comfortable tickling sensation.
OTHER	Control	No current except for first 5 seconds, device open but does not appy electrotherapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-07
• Primary completion: 2017-12-07
• Completion: 2017-12-07
• First posted: 2018-02-20
• Last updated: 2018-02-26