The Wrist-Free Study - Comparing Traditional Above Elbow Casts to Ones That Free the Wrist

ConditionSupracondylar Humerus Fracture

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

AgeUp to 18

SponsorKK Women's and Children's Hospital

About this trial

This randomized controlled trial compares clinical outcomes, patient comfort and satisfaction of freeing the wrist in casts for supracondylar humerus fractures in children.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Type I and Type IIa Supracondylar Humerus Fracture

Disqualifiers

History of elbow injury

Polytrauma

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Modified long arm cast
Procedure/Surgery
A shorter cast that frees the wrist
Traditional long arm cast
Procedure/Surgery
Current standard of care where the cast extends up to the palmar bar

Treatment groups

76 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: TraditionalActive comparator 1 intervention

Group B: ModifiedExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Patient Satisfaction

Measured using QDASH

Time frame

3-4 Weeks

Secondary outcomes

Complications in healing

Observe for loss of reduction in fracture

Time frame

3-4 Weeks

Sponsors and contacts

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KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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