Acute Effects of Interferential Current on Edema, Pain and Muscle Strength in Patients With Distal Radius Fracture

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Acute Effects of Interferential Current on Edema, Pain and Muscle Strength in Patients With Distal Radius Fracture

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03438864
• Other study ID #: IF-Edema
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 13, 2018
• Last updated: February 22, 2018
• Start date: January 7, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 7, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2018
• Source: Ege University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Interferential current is a form of electrotherapy that is obtained by placing two different plates that produce medium frequency waveform current, resulting in a low frequency interferential waveform in deeper tissues. It was shown interferential current electrotherapy is beneficial for reduction of traumatic edema in tissues and pain control.

Patients with conservatively managed distal radius fractures were recruited after casts are shed, and were treated with one session(30 minutes) of different protocols of interferential current electrotherapy. Before and after therapy, they were evaluated with volumetry, hand grip strength and visual analogue scale for pain.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 105
• Est. completion date: December 7, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 7, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Conservatively managed distal radius fractures

Exclusion Criteria:

• Secondary conditions associated with edema(renal failure, congestive heart failure etc)

• Complex regional pain syndrome

• Compartment syndrome

• Contraindications for electrotherapy(cardiac pacemaker, thrombosis, pregnancy etc)

• Mental state unfit for electrotherapy

• Having treated with electrotherapy before

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Edema
• Fractures, Bone
• Pain
• Radius Fractures

Intervention

Device:
• Electrotherapy, interferential current
Interferential current, entry frequencies and beat frequencies were set differently in 2 groups, amplitude was individualized and increased until patients felt a comfortable tickling sensation.

Other:
• Control
No current except for first 5 seconds, device open but does not appy electrotherapy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ege University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Volumetry	Patients were asked to dip their hands slowly into a special bucket full of water with volume markings until their middle finger touched to the bottom of the bucket. The spilled amount of water were measured as milliliters.	30 minutes
Primary	Visual Analogue Scale	Patients were asked to express their discomfort level from pain in a scale ranging from 1 to 10(with the help of a 10 cm line), and point they showed were measured as millimeters.	30 minutes
Primary	Hand Grip Strength	Patients were asked to use a hydraulic hand dynamometer for hand grip strength in a position of 10 to 30 degrees of wrist extension, and results were registered as kilograms.	30 minutes