Adding Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy to Conventional Treatment Improves Pain, Function, and Electrophysiological Function in Females With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine-ARM Pub Date : 2026-06-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-22 DOI:10.5535/arm.260009

Doha H Al-Afify, Doaa Saeed, Fatma S Zidan, Mina Magdy Wahba, Omnya Samy A Ghoneim, Eman Naser Eid Sayed, Hanaa S Mohamed

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Abstract

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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在常规治疗的基础上加入体外冲击波治疗可改善女性腕管综合征患者的疼痛、功能和电生理功能：一项随机对照试验。

目的：确定在常规治疗的基础上加入体外冲击波治疗（ESWT）是否能改善腕管综合征（CTS）女性患者的疼痛、功能和电生理功能。方法：将100名确诊为CTS的女性（25-40岁）随机分为对照组和实验组，对照组接受常规治疗，实验组接受ESWT治疗。结果测量包括症状严重程度量表（SSS），功能严重程度量表（FSS），疼痛强度采用视觉模拟量表（VAS）评估。此外，采用神经传导速度法测量远端感觉潜伏期/远端运动潜伏期（DSL/DML）和感觉神经传导速度/运动神经传导速度（SNCV/MNCV）。结果：实验组患者SSS、VAS、DSL、DML、SNCV均较对照组改善显著（p≤0.05）。然而，MNCV和FSS的变化无统计学意义（p < 0.05）。结论：将ESWT纳入康复治疗可改善女性CTS患者的功能、疼痛和电生理恢复。

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