| Disease | CLINICAL EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF METHANOL EXTRACT OF EREMOSTACHYS LACINIATA ON MILD AND MODERATE CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME (CTS). FORTY PATIENTS, INCLUDING SIXTY HANDS AFFECTED BY CTS, WERE RANDOMLY CATEGORIZED IN TWO DIFFERENT
GROUPS. EREMOSTACHYS LACINIATA EXTRACT IN OINTMENT, PALMAR PREHENSION (POUND), GRIP POWER (KG), VISUAL ANALOG SCALE
(VAS) AND ELECTRODIAGNOSTIC STUDY, WERE PERFORMED ON ALL PATIENTS BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRIAL. DURING THE TRIAL, ALL PATIENTS RECEIVE SODIUM DICLOFENAC (25O MG TWICE A DAY) ORALLY. IN ADDITION, THEY UTILIZED A NIGHT WRIST SPLINT. AFTER FOUR WEEKS OF TREATMENT, THE STATE OF MEAN PALMAR PREHENSION AND VAS IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER PLACEBO IN THE E. LACINIATA TREATMENT GROUP. THE METHANOL EXTRACT OF E. LACINIATA CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN TREATMENT OF MILD AND MODERATE
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME IN COMBINATION WITH THE WRIST NIGHT SPLINT, ESPECIALLY IN ALLEVIATING THE SEVERITY OF THE SYNDROME AND INCREASING THE PALMAR PREHENSION POWER. |