Mallet Finger Splinting Study

Massachusetts General Hospital52 enrolled

Overview

Do patients that night splint for 1 month after 6-8 weeks of continuous splinting for a mallet injury have the same extensor lag 4 months after initiating treatment as patients that do not perform night splinting? Secondary Question: Is night splinting a predictor of DASH score or patient satisfaction (on a 5-Point Likert scale)?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Mallet Finger

Interventions

night splintingPROCEDURE

splint finger at night for 4 weeks

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * All adult, English-speaking patients in the practice of Dr. Jesse Jupiter, Dr. Chaitanya Mudgal, or Dr. David Ring electing splint treatment for mallet deformity will be invited to enroll on their follow-up visit 6-8 weeks after initiating splint treatment. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Open lesions 2. Mallet fracture more than 2 weeks old 3. Mallet fracture with subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint.

Locations (1)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Extensor Lag

Null Hypothesis: Patients that night splint for 1 month after 6-8 weeks of continuous splinting for a mallet injury have the same extensor lag 4 months after initiating treatment as patients that do not perform night splinting.

Time frame: 4 months

Secondary Outcomes

DASH score

Secondary Study Questions: Is night splinting a predictor of DASH score or patient satisfaction (on a 5-Point Likert scale)?

Time frame: 4 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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