Evaluation of Effectiveness of Local Anesthetic Injection in Patients With De Quervain Tenosynovitis
De Quervain Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for De Quervain Disease focused on measuring De Quervain tenosynovitis, Local anesthetics, neural therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patients are diagnosed clinically using the Finkelstein test (in which the patient flexes the thumb and wraps the fingers over thumb, then the physician stabilizes the forearm and ulnarly deviates the wrist)
- The presence of pain over the abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons is accepted as positivity
- Patients between 18-65 years and presence of positive Finkelstein test are included the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients are excluded from the study if they have chronic widespread or local musculoskeletal pain due to rheumatological (i.e., fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis), neurological diseases (i.e., multiple sclerosis, cervical discopathy or plexopathy), trauma or surgery to the related region (wrist, elbow or hand), or are aged <18 years or >65 years
Sites / Locations
- Başkent University Ankara Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Neural therapy group
Control group
Neural therapy group underwent local anesthetics injections by the same physician. Local injections, segmental injections and injection of trigger points of the forearm are done. The patients are evaluated at the beginning of the study and after 4 weeks of follow-up. Pre and post-treatment visual analog scale and Duruöz Hand Index scores are obtained.
Control group used thumb spica splint and had rest