Association of Clinical Assessments of Hand Function and Quantitative Ultrasound Metrics in First Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative condition affecting hand use, is typically evaluated through radiographs and clinical examination. Although this can determine treatment, it is difficult to evaluate functional limitations. Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a quantitative ultrasound technique that characterizes tissue stiffness.

Questions/purposes

This pilot study aimed to establish data of the SWE findings in the thenar eminence muscles in patients with first CMC OA and correlate these findings with the clinical tests of hand function.

Methods

This cross-sectional study correlated the SWE stiffness of thenar eminence muscles to clinical tests of hand function in patients with first CMC OA and in asymptomatic control subjects, u

SUBMITTER: Nwawka OK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749908 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature