Comparison of ultrasound and @entity7988 phonophoresis in the treatment of XXXX .

@entity923 @entity7988 @entity1 @entity158
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of ultrasound (US) and @entity7988 phonophoresis (PH) in the treatment of @entity923 ( @entity923 ). DESIGN: This study was a prospective, randomised, controlled, double-blinded clinical trial with follow-up at 8 weeks. Fiftyone @entity1 (76 median nerves) with clinical and electrophysiologic evidence of mild or moderate @entity923 were included in the study. They were randomly assigned to one of three groups; group 1 received sham US and splinting, group 2 received US and splinting, and group 3 received @entity7988 phonophoresis and splinting. @entity1 were evaluated by use of electrophysiological variables such as median motor distal latency (mMDL), median sensory distal latency (mSDL), functional status scale (FSS), symptom severity scale (SSS) and visual analog scale (VAS). Electrophysiological variables and scales were evaluated at the beginning, end of therapy (2nd week) and 8th week. RESULTS: All the randomised @entity1 were included in the intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis. The per protocol (PP) analysis included only those @entity1 who complied with the study protocol. After completing 2 weeks of treatment, seven out of 51 randomized @entity1 did not finish the study protocol due to non-compliance to splinting, illness and lost to follow-up. Those @entity1 were excluded from PP analysis. @entity1 were similar in all clinical, electrophysiological and demographic respects (p>0.05). An improvement was found in all parameters (VAS, FSS, SSS, mMDL and mSDL) for all groups at the end of the treatment and 8th week. It was found that @entity158 score was significantly lower in group 3 compared to other treatment groups at 8th week according to ITT and PP analysis (p= 0.002, p=0.004 and p=0.001, p=0.001). CONCLUSION: @entity7988 PH as adjuvant therapy on splinting is effective with respect to @entity158 . Adding US therapy to the splinting is not superior to the splinting alone in @entity1 with @entity923 .
