Comparative study between percutaneous release and local steroid injection in trigger finger

Abstract

Trigger finger is the commonest form of tendinopathy. In this study the comparison is done with two effective methods of management which is by giving steroid injection and percutaneous release.in this study two group were created of 40 patients in each group. Both the procedure was done in OPD day care basis. Patients were followed up to 6 months in gap of 1,3,6,12,24 weeks. The outcome was measured by VAS score and recurrence.

Comparative effectiveness of various treatment strategies for trigger finger by pairwise meta-analysis

“…After systematic review, 24 articles met the inclusion criteria. 5,6,9,10,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Among them, 8 of them were excluded from our meta-analysis (Supplemental Appendix B) and 16 of them (including 1185 patients) which reported success were included in our meta-analysis ( Figure 1). 5,6,9,10,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The main characteristics of the included articles are shown in Table 1.…”