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Hand Injury Patients Receiving Different Rehabilitation Programs

NCT02465840 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 11

Last updated 2018-07-24

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Summary

Hand injury is one of common occupational or traumatic injury at outpatient clinic of rehabilitation department. The motor or sensory deficits after hand trauma including bony fracture,tendon / nerve injury, joint stiffness, motion restriction, sensory impairment, or pain lead to impaired upper extremity function, ability for daily activity, or quality of life. Rehabilitation is a kind of therapy for disability after hand trauma. It could provide pain control, improvement of joint motion, stiffness reduction, preventing secondary trauma. The investigators consider that there are some deficits in hand function and range of motion, pain after injury, and some attenuation of brain functional MRI (fMRI) for hand motor control. Therefore, optimal and early intervention of rehabilitation programs may have some benefits for their hand functional outcome and improve the brain activities in fMRI images for the hand motor control.

The aims of this study are to compare the differences in hand motor control area of brain functional MRI (fMRI) between normal subjects and hand injury patients before treatment and to investigate the improvement in brain fMRI activity and functional outcome after early rehabilitation in hand injury patients.

The investigators will collect 40 patients with hand trauma after operation and 10 normal subjects in this study. The 10 normal subjects were allocated in the control group. These 40 patients were randomly divided into 2 experimental groups: 20 patients in group A and 20 patients in group B.

In group A and B, the patients will perform immobilization and Kleinert programs respectively. All patients will perform rehabilitation regimen with 2-3 sessions per week for 3-6 months. Before and after rehabilitation, all patients will receive physical examinations, brain fMRI, and DASH questionnaire for daily activity.

Conditions

  • Hand Injury

Interventions

PROCEDURE

custom-made dynamic hand splint

custom-made dynamic splinting with more early active exercises intervention.

PROCEDURE

custom-made protective hand splint

Immobilization splint with gentle ROM exercises

OTHER

physical therapy and occupational therapy

both the immobilization and Kleinert programs including physical therapy and occupational therapy for 2-3 times per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Huang Yu Chi, Bachelor · Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2017-12-31

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