NCT04558944

The Effect of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in the Treatment of Post Burn Scars

Clinical Use of the Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in the Treatment of Pathological Post Burn Scars

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A prospective, randomized, controlled study. The patients were divided into two groups with twenty patients per group. The control group received the standard treatment for postburn scars. The treatment group received the standard treatment and treatment of postburn scars with Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy 512 impulses of 0.15mJ/mm 2 in each session, twice per week for 4 weeks. The investigators assessed the appearance of scar with the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS), pruritus and pain with Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before the start of the treatment and at 2 weeks and 5 months after the treatment.

Conditions

• Cicatrix, Hypertrophic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Extracorporal Shock Wave Therapy	Acoustic high amplitude waves with Energy Flux Density of 0.15mJ/mm 2 and 512 pulses per session. A total of two sessions per week during a 4-week period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-15
• Completion: 2019-02-15
• First posted: 2020-09-22
• Last updated: 2020-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain