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ArticleAnnals of rehabilitation medicine2026

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

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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Doha H Al-AfifyDepartment of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Doaa SaeedDepartment of Physical Therapy for Women's Health, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Fatma S ZidanDepartment of Physical Therapy for Neuromuscular Disorders and Its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Mina Magdy WahbaDepartment of Physical Therapy for Orthopedics, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Suez University, Suez, Egypt. mina.magdy@the.suezuni.edu.eg.
Omnya Samy A GhoneimDepartment of Physical Therapy for Paediatric Disorders and Its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, King Salman International University, South Sinai, Egypt.
Eman Naser Eid SayedDepartment of Physical Therapy for Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Hanaa S MohamedDepartment of Basic Science, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Modern University for Technology and Information, Cairo, Egypt.

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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).

methodsOne 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.

resultsThe 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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Carpal tunnel syndromeElectrophysiologyExtracorporeal shockwave therapyTaping

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