Numb-it-locally versus sleep/nerve-block for tendon repair
Part of Bones, joints & muscles, Injuries & trauma clinical trials.
This study compares two ways of numbing you for surgery to repair a tendon in the finger: local anesthesia (“wide awake”) versus regional/general anesthesia. It aims to see which approach works best for healing and comfort after flexor tendon repair.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are 18 years old or older.
- You have a recent cut to one or more fingers’ tendon that fully severed it.
- The injury is in the tendon areas called “zones I or II.”
- The wound is not badly contaminated (not heavily dirty or infected-looking).
- You do not have missing tendon sections, and there is no need to delay the repair.
- This is not a complicated hand injury (no fractures in the same finger, no major joint injury, and not mangled or requiring amputation/replant).
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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