Active clinical trials for "Osteoarthritis"

The goal of the study is to know if the reconstruction of the lower limb mechanical axis and the patient knee function is improved after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) using patient specific instruments.

The purpose of this study is to compare the the Nexgen knee replacement system using cementless fixation with the same system using cemented fixation. At minimum 2-year follow-up, the hypothesis is that NexGen total knee arthroplasties using cementless and cemented fixation will demonstrate no differences in clinical outcome based on Oxford and Knee Society scores, patient-assessed visual analog pain, clinical complications, radiographic fixation and implant survivorship.

This double-blinded randomized control study will use kinematic and kinetic measures to compare an anatomical congruent prosthetic knee design to a standard prosthetic knee design. The patients will be measured pre- and post-operative and compared to a healthy non-osteoarthritis control group.

Predictive factors of osteoarthritis progression are not yet well understood. However, a growing role attaches importance to the subchondral bone. The aim of the present project is to determine predictive factors of progression of osteoarthritis at the knee by a multimodal characterization of subchondral bone by Medical Resonnance Imaging, direct high resolution digitization radiographs and bone texture analysis. At the end of the project, an innovative imaging device, combining semi-automatic softwares for texture analysis, control detection and image registration would be supplied. This will enable on the one hand a more accurate and reproducible way to measure the joint space width of the affected compartment and on the other hand, an assistance to better detect patients at risk of progression of their knee osteoarthritis. Identifying These "progressors" patients might permit their selection in clinical trials at baseline adapted to their severe disease, using for example biologic treatments targeting knee osteoarthritis. The main objective of this study is to analyze the predictive capacities of bone texture parameters measured on the high-resolution radiography of the knee on the structural evolution of the knee osteoarthritis at 3 years.

Music has emerged as a well-received medical intervention. Patients may be uncomfortable during total joint replacement, which can result in high sedation requirements. These requirements put patients at risk of surgical stress. This study compares the effect of passive noise-cancellation versus active noise cancellation with music on pain, vital signs and anxiety during elective total knee replacement.

Obesity, namely at body mass index (BMI) levels exceeding 40kg/m2 (class III obesity), is a risk factor for many diseases including osteoarthritis (OA). In arthroplasty, patients in this population frequently present for and are turned away from surgical intervention. Subsequently, efforts are made to decrease BMI through simple weight loss, yet these have been suggested as ineffective and counterproductive. Furthermore, simple weight loss may include muscle mass loss, which is an additional risk factor for surgery. At the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Orthopedics Department, efforts have been made to encourage muscle mass gain and body fat loss over simple weight loss where progress has been tracked through stationary, multi-frequency bioimpedance analysis (BIA). BIA is a readily available technology offered to industry and consumers, and BIA has recently been incorporated into wearable devices. In the UIHC Orthopedics department, a novel clinic aimed at holistically serving the osteoarthritic-class III obese population for controlled and monitored weight loss through BIA. This study, a randomized controlled trial, aims to recruit adult patients with class III obesity presenting to the arthroplasty-obesity clinic. While all patients will receive individual body composition coaching to increase muscle mass and decrease body fat mass, they will be randomized to one of two cohorts: the study group will receive a wearable BIA wristband (InBody BAND 2) and instruction on its use in addition to the standard coaching, and the control group will only receive the standard coaching. This study aims to identify if the use of a wearable BIA wristband aids in the desired body composition changes. In addition, this study aims to quantify the body composition changes exhibited by each cohort. Finally, this study aims to track surgical outcomes for those patients that are indicated for total joint arthroplasty.

The cementless ATTUNETM Rotating Platform Knee system was compared in a single-blind, randomized RSA trial to its predecessor, the LCS rotating platform Knee System. In this previous study, 61 knees were subjected to RSA examinations at 1-day and 3, 6, 12 and 24 months postoperative. This study found a promising equal migration of both tibial components and a lesser migration of the femoral component of the ATTUNETM knee system after two years, although with a similar migration rate between year 1 and 2. this raises the question of whether the migration of the prostheses relative to each other will increase or remain the same in the long term. To examine this, a mid-and long-term RSA follow-up to measure migration is necessary. In addition, another new RSA measurement parameter has become known in recent years that may provide an indication of the bonding of the prosthesis to the bone at the time of measurement. This new parameter, called the Induced Displacement (ID) of a prosthesis, measures the position and orientation relative to the bone while the prosthesis is under different loading conditions (e.g., patient in supine or standing position). This means that a large measured difference between these different loading condition measurements would indicate that osseointegration of the prosthesis never occurred or is no longer present. To improve the understanding of the tendency of both prostheses to aseptic loosening after a mid- to long-term follow up, migration over time and inducible displacement analyses are necessary. The primary objective of this study is to accurately compare mid- and long-term migration of two uncemented TKR prostheses. The secondary objectives of this study are to evaluate if inducible displacement can be used as a parameter to detect loose implants, and to compare inducible displacement, clinical and radiological outcome and patient-reported outcomes (PROMS) after a follow-up of 5 and 10 years of two uncemented TKR prostheses.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of different modalities of aquatic physiotherapy on the biochemical and functional behavior of patients with knee's Osteoarthritis.

A placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial exploring the effect of intraarticular steroids, saline or an occupational therapy intervention in inflammatory carpometacarpal-1 osteoarthritis

Genicular nerves chemical neurolysis in advanced osteoarthritis of the knee joint.