Task-oriented Exercises and Mirror Therapy After Flexor Tendon Repair

NANot yet recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

66

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

September 15, 2025

Primary Completion Date

September 15, 2026

Study Completion Date

September 15, 2026

Conditions
Flexor Tendon Injury
Interventions
OTHER

Task-oriented exercises and mirror therapy

Patients in this group will receive task-oriented exercises 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.Therapy will include the following functional tasks: reaching, grasping or holding, lifting, placing objects, and counting fingers.Mirror therapy group: 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.A mirror will be placed on the learning table, and exercises will be carried out by the patient looking into the mirror, where an unaffected limb would be placed in front of the mirror. Through looking into the mirror, the patient will assume the reflection of the unaffected limb is the affected limb. Exercises will be performed by hand opening and closing, wrist extension and flexion, squeezing, opposition, calculation, and finger flexion and extension.

OTHER

Task-oriented exercises

Patients in this group received task-oriented exercises 3 sessions per week for 6 weeks.Therapy included the following functional tasks: reaching, grasping or holding, lifting, placing objects, and counting fingers.

OTHER

Mirror Therapy

Mirror therapy group 3sessions per week for 6 weeks. Mirror will be placed on the learning table and exercises will be carried out by the patient looking into the mirror where an unaffected limb would be placed in front of the mirror, through looking into the mirror patient will assume the reflection of the unaffected limb as the affected limb. Exercises will be performed hand opening and closing, wrist extension and flexion, squeezing, opposition, the calculation, finger flexion and extension.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

CairoU, Cairo

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Cairo University

OTHER