ArticlePeerJ2019
Long-term patient observation after conservative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome: a summary of two randomised controlled trials.
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- Comparison of Two Manual Therapy Programs, including Tendon Gliding Exercises as a Common Adjunct, While Managing the Participants with Chronic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.Pain research & management · 2022Trial
- Perineural Steroid Injections in Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Ultrasound Diagnostic and Physiotherapy Approach for a Patient with Parsonage-Turner Syndrome-A Case Report.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Effects of Physiotherapy in the Treatment of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Neurodynamics: is tension contentious?The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2022Article
- Use of conservative therapy before and after surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Diagnosis Accuracy of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Diabetic Neuropathy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPhysiotherapy of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) involves manual therapy based on neurodynamic techniques. Until now, two randomized controlled trials have shown that immediately after therapy, CTS patients who received neurodynamic techniques had significant improvement in nerve conduction, pain, symptom severity (SSS), functional state (FSS), muscle strength (MS) and two-point discrimination (2PD). However, long-term effects seem to be more important, as they are the only ones that can significantly improve the patient's health and influence economic and social costs. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the long-term (six months) effects of neurodynamic techniques in the conservative treatment of CTS patients.
methodsCarpal tunnel syndrome patients (107) from two previously published randomised clinical trials were observed for six months after the treatment based on neurodynamic techniques.
resultsThe sensory conduction velocity, motor conduction velocity, and motor latency were not subject to statistically significant changes within six months after therapy (
conclusionThe use of manual therapy based on neurodynamic techniques maintains the beneficial effects 6 months after therapy in CTS patients.
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