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Last refreshed on: 30 May 2022
Main ID:  NCT03014024
Date of registration: 06/01/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Bergen
Public title: Low-level Laser Therapy in Distal Radius Fractures
Scientific title: A Double-blind Placebo-controlled Study of Low-level Laser Therapy After Removal of Cast in Distal Radius Fractures
Date of first enrolment: December 2016
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03014024
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Norway
Contacts
Name:     Jan Magnus Bjordal, Professor
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Affiliation:  University of Bergen
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with distal radius fracture, with or without ulna fracture (Colles' fracture

- The breach must be closed

- after reduction: 0 degrees dorsal displacement of radius

- Under 5 degrees shortening of the radius

- Under 3 mm step in the joint

- 18+ years

Exclusion Criteria:

- People who do not speak Norwegian or English

- If the patient is pregnant

- Patient with Smith fracture

- Wounds over fracture area

- If the patient hav a peripheral neve injury

- If the patient had (previously) operated the wrist

- Persons with verified osteoporosis at the time of injury, systemic inflammatory
disease (rheumatism), mental illness, stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis,
cancer or congenital malformations in wrist

- If the laser treatment can not be started within 3 days after removal of the cast



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Colles' Fracture
Intervention(s)
Other: Low-Level Laser Therapy
Other: Placebo Low Level Laser therapy
Primary Outcome(s)
Function and pain [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Active range of motion will be assessed using goniometer [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Strength will be assessed using dynamometer [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Swelling will be assessed using measurement tape [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Pain assessed using Pressure Algometer [Time Frame: 26 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
2016/1633
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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