NCT03847935

Trigger Finger Treatment

Trigger Finger Treatment - An Outcomes Study. Comparing 6 Traditional Treatment Techniques

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Lowell · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Trigger finger is a common disorder of the hand which causes pain at the A1 pulley, inflammation, stiffness and/or snapping during movement. This observational study compared all of the possible treatments and combinations of treatments for trigger finger at the A1 pulley, including surgery, cortisone injections and hand therapy.

Detailed description

Trigger finger is a common disorder of the hand which causes pain at the A1 pulley, inflammation, stiffness or snapping during movement. This can be very debilitating. Current treatment includes local steroid injection, oral NSAIDS, resting orthoses, physical or occupational therapy and surgical intervention. The aim of this prospective study with an observational design was to determine the outcome between surgical, hand therapy rehabilitation, and corticosteroid injection interventions for trigger finger. There were 6 treatment groups: surgery, corticosteroid injection, 1 visit of hand therapy for orthosis fabrication and therapeutic exercise, hand therapy in combination with cortisone injection, Modality hand therapy alone (ongoing visits) or with corticosteroid injections.

Conditions

• Trigger Finger
• Trigger Digit
• Stenosing Tenosynovitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	surgery	A1 pulley release of finger
PROCEDURE	corticosteroid injections	corticosteroid injection to A1 pulley
OTHER	Hand Therapy	orthosis fabrication, therapeutic exercise for range of motion to digits, ice massage, nodule massage, patient education,
OTHER	Modality Hand Therapy	orthosis fabrication, therapeutic exercise for range of motion to digits, ice massage, nodule massage, patient education, plus modalities such as ultrasound, iontophoresis

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-12-10
• Primary completion: 2012-12-08
• Completion: 2012-12-08
• First posted: 2019-02-20
• Last updated: 2019-02-20