Active clinical trials for "Osteoarthritis"

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common forms of arthritis. It is a lasting condition in which the material that cushions the joints, called cartilage, breaks down. This causes the bones to rub against each other, causing inflammation, stiffness, pain and loss of joint movement. Currently, there are few effective treatments available for patients suffering from OA. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are cells that have the ability to self-regenerate, which means they have the ability to make copies of themselves and to turn into other kinds of cells (e.g. cartilage cells). Stem cell science shows much promise for the future treatment of osteoarthritis, but much of the research is still in the early stages. In this study, researchers want to determine the safety of MSCs that a patient can tolerate without causing side effects. This will be done by starting at a low dose of MSCs and moving on to the next higher dose level provided there are no safety concerns. Researchers will also be looking at the function of the knee over time, which may give them some insight on the usefulness of MSCs as a treatment option.

The study hypothesized that it is feasible and safe to use Hatha yoga in older women with knee osteoarthritis (OA), and practicing Hatha yoga regularly will help reduce pain and stiffness, enhance physical function, and improve quality of sleep and quality of life in older women with knee OA.

The primary purpose is to evaluate the benefit of an education action of exercise on the level of physical activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis with the waning of a spa treatment for three weeks, three months after the start of the cure.

Veterans have much higher risk of osteoarthritis (OA) then the general population. Knee OA is common among Veterans and is a leading cause of disability. The earliest stages of OA development, where the joint cartilage wears away, is usually painless. By the time Veterans experience symptoms, the OA is typically advanced and there is nothing that can be done except palliation until the joint is replaced with metal and plastic. If there was a blood test to provide early warning of cartilage wear and joint deterioration, Veterans could potentially be treated early enough to slow down or even prevent OA. So far, development of such a blood test has proved elusive. The investigators propose a new method to amplify the signs of cartilage wear in the blood by challenging the affected joint with a walking task. Similar to a cardiac stress test, this walking challenge may help to separate joints at risk from healthy joints. The investigators will also see if this 'OA stress test' can show if a simple and inexpensive load-modifying shoe can improve joint health in Veterans with early knee OA.

This study will evaluate the acute effects of vibration (whole body vibration and local muscle vibration) on quadriceps function, knee joint proprioception, and gait biomechanics linked to osteoarthritis development in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Subjects will be randomly assigned to control (no vibration), whole body vibration, and local muscle vibration groups, and the aforementioned characteristics will be assessed prior to and following the respective interventions.

This study aims to determine in people with knee Osteoarthritis (OA) if relief of pain after treatment with either duloxetine or placebo is associated with changes in brain anatomy.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common joint diseases causing pain, muscle weakness and disability in older population. Quadriceps muscle weakness is one of the recognized risk factors for the development and the progression of the disease. Increasing the muscle strength could actually bring many benefits to the knee OA patients. The purposes of this study are 1) to investigate the effects of combining the EMG biofeedback technique into a stationary cycling exercise on the activities of vastus medialis (VM) in people with medial compartment knee OA; 2) To investigate the efficiency of a 6-week cycling exercise program on improving of quadriceps muscle strength and endurance, physical functions and pain in these patients and compare between the conditions of with or without EMG biofeedback; 3) To determine the relationships between the muscle activities and the kinematics of the knee joint during this cycling exercise program; and therefore to find the mechanism of the improvement on muscle activities in the intervention of cycling combining EMG biofeedback. In this study, we will enroll the knee OA patients from our hospital, and they will be randomly assigned either to the control group, who will cycle without biofeedback, or the biofeedback group, who will cycle with a real-time visual EMG biofeedback, during the six-week training program. The exercise program consisted of a 5-minute warm-up with low-resistance cycling, 30-minute moderate-resistance cycling exercise, and 5-minute cool down session. . The knee adduction angle, quadriceps strength and endurance, KOOS Chinese version, VAS scale will also be measured at baseline and after six weeks of intervention. Mixed-model repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA) will be used to determine if there are any differences in the kinematic, myoelectric, muscle strength and endurance. It is hoped that the results of this study could provide information regarding the proper and efficient training strategy for the OA knee patients, and deliver the concepts of proper exercise technique to enhance health in the community.

The main aim in this randomized controlled trial is to improve access to safe and effective care, professional practice and cost-effective utilisation of health care resources by testing if occupational therapist-led care is as effective and safe as rheumatologist-led care for people with hand osteoarthritis.

The knee osteoarthritis becoming a leading cause of disability among older adults' population. When conventional treatments fail, a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is suggested. Although TKA treatment significantly reduces pain and improve mobility of patients, there is still high prevalence of patients whose neuromuscular function is impaired up to three years following TKA, which can be directly prescribed to poor or/and inadequate rehabilitation practice. Thus, motor imagery (MI) is proposed as additional rehabilitation tool to convention physical therapy to reduce decline of neuromuscular function in early days post-surgery. Recent studies showed that MI could facilitate learning and acquisition of motor skills, as well as maintain and retain previously acquired motor skills, which may be beneficial for those who undergo TKA. It represents an incentive in the process of motor learning and the transfer of the mental scheme of the motion pattern into the process of movement execution. Measuring neuromuscular function pre- and post-TKA could be unique opportunity to provide empirical evidence about its additional therapeutic effects. Outcomes of proposed research project could serve to improve existing intervention programs applied in rehabilitation protocols following TKA surgery as well as other orthopedic interventions. This would also contribute to the successful return of individuals after an injury to their everyday working routine. We hypothesized that MI practice group will experience better both subjective and objective measures of functional performance compared to control group that will be subjected to routine physical therapy only.

This study is an assessment of the overall performance of participants with symptomatic mild knee OA taking Tregocel® as a dietary supplement in addition to standard of care treatment.