Status:
COMPLETED
The Manchester Short Splint in the Rehabilitation of Zone II Flexor Tendon Repairs
Lead Sponsor:
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Conditions:
Tendon Injuries
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief 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-ba...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Adult male and female patients 16 years and over, undergoing surgical repair of zone II flexor tendon injury in a single digit
Exclusion
- Adult patients lacking capacity or motivation to participate in the planned physiotherapy
- Adult patients with special needs and vulnerable groups
- Adult patients who undergo surgical repair of their flexor tendon more than 4 days after the initial injury
- Patients unable to understand English adequately
- Adult patients unable to attend the hospital facility for the requisite number of planned physiotherapy sessions (social reasons)
- Adult patients with multiple level injuries
- Injuries with soft tissue loss requiring coverage
- Adult patients with two nerve injuries on the same finger
- Adult patients with multiple digit flexor tendon injury
- Adult patients with concomitant bony injury to the hand
- Children under 16 years age
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2015
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 30 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
60 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03850210
Start Date
June 1 2015
End Date
June 30 2020
Last Update
August 11 2020
Active Locations (1)
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Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester, United Kingdom, M23 9LT