Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common peripheral entrapment neuropathy, this study aims to investigate if, and to what extent hydro-dissection hyalase and saline of the median nerve could offer symptoms and clinical improvement
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common compression syndrome the upper extremities. Its problem has a high prevalence ranged estimated prevalence of 3.8% in the general population, 3 and 7.8% in the working population. It occurs at any age, especially in individuals in their 40s to 60s, and the male: female ratio is reported to be 3:7. A lot of treatment modalities have been tried to improve the condition, starting from local anesthetic injection, steroid, and up to surgical decompression of the nerves.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
60
Emad Zarief Kamel Said
Asyut, Egypt
pain alleviation
improvement of pain measured by visual analog scale , no pain the scale equal zero , and worst pain the scale equal 10
Time frame: 6 months
Changes in ultrasound imaging
change of cross sectional area in cubic mellimeter
Time frame: 6 months
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