Active clinical trials for "Osteoarthritis"

A study to evaluate the possibility of using far infrared radiation to manage pain due to osteoarthritis.

This study is undertaken to investigate the effect of navigated knee implantation surgery on physical function, joint stiffness, pain, quality of life and coordinative abilities. One group of patients will receive navigated knee implantation surgery, the other traditional knee implantation surgery, without use of the navigation system. The study is designed as a randomized trial. That means that all patients who have given their consent to participate in this study will be allocated to either navigated or conventional surgery by chance. A total of 477 patients will be included in this study and will be followed up for 12 month. In this period all patients will be asked to fill in functional and quality of life questionnaires at baseline, 6 weeks and 3, 6 and 12 month follow-up. Coordinative abilities will be evaluated once in the time-frame 3 to 6 months postoperatively.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Cura-100 in treating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

The objective is to assess the safety and efficacy (over the course of 26 weeks) of 2 intra-articular (IA) Hylan GF-20 (Synvisc) injections in addition to customary care in patients with painful glenohumeral osteoarthritis.

Investigators would let knee osteoarthritis patient dressing lateral wedge insole and evaluate the effect for foot pressure modification, quadriceps thickness detected with ultrasound and gait. Investigators would made the patient in control group dressing ordinary insole.

This study will be conducted to compare the effect of BFR with LLRT versus neuromuscular training on quadriceps muscle strength, knee joint function and proprioception accuracy.

The purpose of the study is to compare the effect of different doses of energies of high-intensity LASER on pain and functional activity in patients with chronic knee OA.

Primary osteoarthritis is a debilitating disease characterized by extensive damage to the joints and excruciating pain leading to loss of activity and depression. Despite advances in diagnosis, the quest for the development of a disease-modifying osteoarthritis drug has proven unsuccessful. Human cartilage only has limited regenerative potential. Transplantation is a promising strategy given the high proliferative capacity of MSCs and their potential to differentiate into cartilage-producing cells - chondrocytes. The acquisition of MSC does not require invasive surgical intervention or cartilage extraction from other sites as required by other cell-based strategies. The investigators inject allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells to the cartilage lesions in patients via intra-articular injection method, and to investigate the efficacy and safety.

The mobile bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty has shown excellent clinical outcome and survivorship. However, some studies have shown that the patients still had medial knee pain and shown worst the clinical outcome, even though the survivorship was excellent. The medial knee pain after operation was the one cause of revision. The incidence of medial knee pain was 0%-9%. The cause of medial knee pain was overloading on the medial plateau, local inflammation, over hanging of the tibial component and overstretching of the MCL due to the application of excessive polyethylene. Therefore, the tibia in this study was cut with under resection technique for reducing the overloading on the medial tibial plateau. The purpose of this study is to compare medial knee pain between tibial bone cut preservation technique and conventional tibial bone cut technique following mobile bearing UKA.

Osteoarthritis is the 11th highest contributor to disability world wide. In terms of conservative management of patients with knee osteoarthritis, Resistance exercise has been shown to be an effective intervention for reducing pain and cartilage degeneration and improving muscle strength, joint biomechanics and physical functioning. But, research shows that co supplementation can further augment the effects of resistance exercise. However, it is imperative to point out that the existing evidence is majorly focused on the individual effects of resistance exercise training and non-pharmacological supplementation, and is still deficient in the effects of co-supplementation in addition to resistance exercise training in patients with knee osteoarthritis.