NCT03850210

The Manchester Short Splint in the Rehabilitation of Zone II Flexor Tendon Repairs

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The project sets out to compare two different splints in the outcome of zone II flexor tendon injury hand therapy rehabilitation programme. Traditional hand therapy is based on using a long forearm-based splint for 6 weeks in zone II flexor tendon injuries. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust have devised a new shorter splint to use as an alternative to the traditional longer splint as there are cogent reasons for believing that permitting more wrist movement during rehabilitation will improve the range of finger movement ultimately (tendonesis effects). Patients will be randomised to receive either the traditional long splint, or the short splint. Patients will be followed up and data will be collected at routine hand therapy appointments.

Conditions

• Tendon Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Short Splint	Short Splint that permits maximal wrist flexion and up to 45° of wrist extension with a block to 30° of MCP joint extension.
DEVICE	Traditional Long Splint	Traditional splint is a forearm-based dorsal thermoplastic splint that immobilizes the wrist in neutral position with a block to 30° of metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint extension

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-30
• Completion: 2020-06-30
• First posted: 2019-02-21
• Last updated: 2020-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom