Effect of Acupressure on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Pregnant Women

NCT ID: NCT06555926

Last Updated: 2024-08-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 50 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2024-12-31

Brief Summary

This study will be conducted to investigate the effect of acupressure on carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women.

Detailed Description

The pregnant women are more prone to develop carpal tunnel syndrome because they retain more fluid during the later stages of their pregnancies. The more fluid retained , the more swelling occurs , squeezing the nerves that run through the hand and finger. Also most women who experience pain, numbness and tingling in the hand for the first time due to pregnancy have no idea that they have carpal tunnel syndrome.

Given the importance of treating CTS and preventing the limitations caused by this syndrome, and since it can turn into a debilitating disease if left untreated, acupressure can be recommended as a safe and noninvasive technique for reducing the severity of clinical symptoms.

Till now, there is no previous studies explored the effect of acupressure on carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women. So, this study will be conducted to provide new information about the efficacy of acupressure in management of carpal tunnel syndrome in pregnant women, which will help such pregnant women to overcome this problem and will add new evidence to the field of physical therapy.

Conditions

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Acupressure group

The pregnant women will receive acupressure and advice for 12 weeks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Acupressure

Intervention Type: OTHER

The pregnant women will receive acupressure on the (Pc-6/Lung-7 )acupoints one minute for each point with 3 repetitions on both side( about 30minutes /session),2 times per week in addition to advices for 12 weeks.

advices for relieving carpal tunnel syndrome

Intervention Type: OTHER

The pregnant women will receive advices for 12 weeks as follows:

• Avoid heavy lifting.
• Avoid repetitive tasks.
• Sit on chairs with armrests and elevate affected hand on the armrest
• Avoid sleeping on the side of the affected hand.
• Keep the wrist in a neutral (straight) position.
• Avoid positions of full flexion and extension.
• Reduce general swelling by:

• eating less salty food .
• elevating legs when sitting .
• wearing compression garments.
• Apply cold water over the wrist.

Advice group

The pregnant women will receive advice only for 12 weeks

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

advices for relieving carpal tunnel syndrome

Intervention Type: OTHER

The pregnant women will receive advices for 12 weeks as follows:

• Avoid heavy lifting.
• Avoid repetitive tasks.
• Sit on chairs with armrests and elevate affected hand on the armrest
• Avoid sleeping on the side of the affected hand.
• Keep the wrist in a neutral (straight) position.
• Avoid positions of full flexion and extension.
• Reduce general swelling by:

• eating less salty food .
• elevating legs when sitting .
• wearing compression garments.
• Apply cold water over the wrist.

Interventions

Acupressure

The pregnant women will receive acupressure on the (Pc-6/Lung-7 )acupoints one minute for each point with 3 repetitions on both side( about 30minutes /session),2 times per week in addition to advices for 12 weeks.

Intervention Type: OTHER

advices for relieving carpal tunnel syndrome

The pregnant women will receive advices for 12 weeks as follows:

• Avoid heavy lifting.
• Avoid repetitive tasks.
• Sit on chairs with armrests and elevate affected hand on the armrest
• Avoid sleeping on the side of the affected hand.
• Keep the wrist in a neutral (straight) position.
• Avoid positions of full flexion and extension.
• Reduce general swelling by:

• eating less salty food .
• elevating legs when sitting .
• wearing compression garments.
• Apply cold water over the wrist.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women who are clinically diagnosed as having carpal tunnel syndrome .
• Their age will be ranged from 20 to 35years old.
• Their body mass index will not exceed 30kg/m2.
• All of them are in their 3rd trimester of pregnancy.(28-40weeks)
• All of them suffer from mild and moderate CTS.
• Degree of carpal tunnel pain will be 2 or more on Visual Analogue scale.

Exclusion Criteria

• Dermatological abnormalities in the skin of acupionts.
• Internal fixation at the area of acupressure application.
• Smokers .
• Metabolic diseases such as Diabetes mellitus.
• Females who had history of fracture or trauma to the hand .

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 35 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Bassant Hesham Ahmed

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Azza Nashed, professor

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Cairo University

Central Contacts

bassant ahmed, Master

Role: CONTACT

besobassant88@gmail.com

+201141292300

mohamed fawzy, PHD

Role: CONTACT

drmohamedfawzy61@icloud.com

+201001414404

Other Identifiers

P.T.REC/012/005286

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id