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Adding Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy to Conventional Treatment Improves Pain, Function, and Electrophysiological
Doha H Al-Afify1, Doaa Saeed2, Fatma S Zidan3
1Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Objective:
To determine whether adding extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) to conventional treatment enhances pain, function, and electrophysiological functionality in females with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
Methods:
One hundred females (25-40 years) diagnosed with CTS were randomly allocated to a control group that received conventional therapy and an experimental group that received the same program augmented with ESWT. Outcome measures included the symptom severity scale (SSS), function severity scale (FSS), pain intensity assessed using the visual analog scale (VAS). In addition, distal sensory latency/distal motor latency (DSL/DML), and sensory nerve conduction velocity/motor nerve conduction velocity (SNCV/MNCV) were measured using a nerve conduction velocity study.
Results:
The experimental group exhibited significantly greater improvements in SSS, VAS, DSL, DML, SNCV, compared to controls (all p≤0.05). However, changes in MNCV and FSS were non-significant (p>0.05).
Conclusion:
Integrating ESWT into rehabilitation enhances function, pain, and electrophysiological recovery in females with CTS.
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