Recruiting

Splinting vs. No Treatment

Sponsor:

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Code:

NCT02547181

Conditions

Metacarpal Fractures

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Behavioral Modification

Splint

Study Details

Brief summary:

This Study is being done because the investigators would like to know if pain and hand function after having a boxer's fracture differs between being treated with supportive splinting or without splinting, but with behavioral modifications.

Conditions

Metacarpal Fractures

Study ID

NCT02547181

Start date

Sep, 2014

Status verified date

Oct, 2016

Completion date

Jan, 2018

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct, 2017

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosis of true boxer's fracture
  • Candidate for either supportive splinting or tensor bandage
  • Speaking, read and write English

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior surgical treatment for boxer's fractures or other hand conditions.
  • Concurrent hand/wrist injury

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Splint

Patients will be provided instructed to use a tensor bandage as well as specific behaviours to prevent movement of the injured part of the hand.

experimental: Behavioral Modification

Patients are given a removable plaster/fiberglass splint with a tensor bandage underneath

Interventions

Behavioral Modification

Patient will be provided with tensor bandage and instructed on specific behaviors to prevent movement of the injured part of the hand.

Splint

fibreglass splint

Primary outcome measure

  • hand function [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
  • hand function [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • hand function [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Catherine McMillan, MSc

Catherine.mcmillan@sunnybrook.ca

Locations

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5

Contacts

Catherine McMillan, MSc

catherine.mcmillan@sunnybrook.ca

More Information

Sponsor

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Last update posted

Oct 24, 2016

Last verified

Oct, 2016

Keywords

  • Fracture
  • Follow-up
  • metacarpal

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre on 2016-10-24.