Active clinical trials for "Osteoarthritis"

This study is to test a new treatment method, geniculate artery embolization (GAE), to reduce the severity of pain and disability caused by knee osteoarthritis.

This study evaluates the combination of a therapeutic exercise program and dry needling in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis in older adults. Half of participants will receive therapeutic exercise program and dry needling in combination, while the other half will receive the same therapeutic exercise program and sham dry needling.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate clinical outcomes following a single injection of nSTRIDE Autologous Protein Solution in females with isolated patellofemoral osteoarthritis. A secondary objective of this study is to document the duration of treatment effect following nSTRIDE injection.

Corticosteroid injections are commonly used for the symptomatic treatment of knee osteoarthritis. Common practice is to inject the joint with a combination of corticosteroid and local anesthetic, with the rationale of providing longer duration pain relief with the corticosteroid and immediate, though short duration relief with the anesthetic. However, multiple in vitro and animal studies have shown that local anesthetic may be harmful to chondrocytes. Despite this data, use of intra-articular anesthetic remains widespread. Many clinicians believe incorporating the anesthetic is important because it can provide immediate pain relief and facilitate patient confidence in the treatment program. However, there is no published data to validate this reasoning. Therefore, the anesthetic has unknown clinical benefit and may have adverse effects on articular cartilage. In light of this, the investigators question the routine use of anesthetics in joint injections. The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of knee joint injections using: 1) corticosteroid with local anesthetic versus 2) corticosteroid with normal saline.

Tanezumab is a monoclonal antibody that binds to and inhibits the actions of nerve growth factor (NGF). The Nerve Growth Factor Inhibitor (NGFI) class may offer an important breakthrough in the treatment of chronic pain and is under clinical investigation for the treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis or other chronic pain conditions. The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate superior efficacy of tanezumab 5 mg and 2.5 mg administered subcutaneously (SC) every 8 weeks versus placebo at Week 24 in subjects with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip. The 2.5 mg dose was shown to provide efficacy benefits with a favorable safety profile when administered intravenously in previous Phase 3 clinical trials. The 5 mg dose is expected to provide added efficacy benefit over the 2.5 mg dose based on data from previous studies.

In this study, investigators compared the efficacy of intra-articular 0.5% lidocaine and saline injection on pain, stiffness and physical function in patients with osteoarthritis.

Viscosupplementation by intra-articular injection of hyaluronate products has recently gained popularity as a treatment modality of gonarthritis.There is not, however, a consensus on the best method.Our objective is to evaluate what is the best dosage of viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid (OSTEONIL®) associated with 1 ml (20 mg) of triamcinolone hexacetonide. One hundred and four patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) were divides into 2 groups of 52 patients each to receive either a single application of 3 ampoules of OSTEONIL® + 1ml of Hexacetonide of triamcinolone or three applications of 1 ampoule of OSTEONIL®, one per week for three weeks + 1ml of Hexacetonide of triamcinolone only in the first injection. Primary endpoint was clinical results expressed by Visual Analogic Scale of pain (VAS), Western Ontario and Mcmaster Universities (WOMAC) and Lequesne questionaires at one, three, six and 12 months after the procedure

The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of FX006 for the treatment of pain in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of standard physical therapy and an internet-based exercise program for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Both of these programs will be compared to a "waiting list" control group. The investigators hypothesize that both treatments will result in greater improvement than the control condition and that the treatments will be similarly effective. The investigators also expect that some patients may do better with one treatment type or another and will explore this.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a combined Traumeel® / Zeel® injection against placebo (saline) in patients with moderate-to-severe pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee.