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Task-oriented Exercises and Mirror Therapy After Flexor Tendon Repair

NCT07152548 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2025-09-16

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Summary

The main objective of the study is to explore the effect of intervention with task-oriented exercises and mirror therapy on the outcomes of hand function post flexor tendon repair.

Conditions

  • Flexor Tendon Injury

Interventions

OTHER

Task-oriented exercises and mirror therapy

Patients in this group will receive task-oriented exercises 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.Therapy will include the following functional tasks: reaching, grasping or holding, lifting, placing objects, and counting fingers.Mirror therapy group: 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.A mirror will be placed on the learning table, and exercises will be carried out by the patient looking into the mirror, where an unaffected limb would be placed in front of the mirror. Through looking into the mirror, the patient will assume the reflection of the unaffected limb is the affected limb. Exercises will be performed by hand opening and closing, wrist extension and flexion, squeezing, opposition, calculation, and finger flexion and extension.

OTHER

Task-oriented exercises

Patients in this group received task-oriented exercises 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.Therapy included the following functional tasks: reaching, grasping or holding, lifting, placing objects, and counting fingers.

OTHER

Mirror Therapy

Mirror therapy group 3sessions per week for 6 weeks. Mirror will be placed on the learning table and exercises will be carried out by the patient looking into the mirror where an unaffected limb would be placed in front of the mirror, through looking into the mirror patient will assume the reflection of the unaffected limb as the affected limb. Exercises will be performed hand opening and closing, wrist extension and flexion, squeezing, opposition, the calculation, finger flexion and extension.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eman M Elshamy, B.Sc. of physical therapy · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-09-15
Primary Completion
2026-09-15
Completion
2026-09-15

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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