Active clinical trials for "Osteoarthritis"

The GOLF study is a multicenter, prospective study with the goal to investigate golfers' return to the sport following hip, knee or shoulder arthroplasty. The prevalence of return to golf, by level of returning to golf will be assessed at 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months postoperatively. Patients who are active golfers undergoing joint replacement will be identified from outpatient clinics and pre-assessment clinics and given information about the study at least two weeks prior to surgery. Participants in this study must have a desire to return to golf after surgery. Previous studies have only been able to report the return to golf after arthroplasty retrospectively; the prospective nature of this study will allow for a greater understanding of this process.

This study aimed to examine the effect of Reiki therapy on pain, functional status and holistic well-being in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Clinical verification of knee osteoarthritis pain relief and functional improvement using low-dose radiation therapy

The aim of the study is the evaluation of the effect of balneotherapy with Acquabios bicarbonate-alkaline-sodium thermal water in ameliorating some signs and symptoms of knee osteoarthritis in human subjects suffering from this disease

Managing joint pain is one of the main goals for treating osteoarthritis (OA) and other musculoskeletal disorders. Alleviating chronic pain pharmacologically has several potential drawbacks including diminishing efficacy, toxicity, adverse side-effects, and patient anxiety. Non-pharmacological approaches (eg. weight loss) have also been found to be effective at controlling joint pain and can provide supplementary benefits. The development of efficacious, alternative treatments for arthritis pain which provide analgesia without adverse side-effects would be advantageous. Recently, preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that green ambient light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produced profound analgesia in animal models and chronic pain patients. Both migraineurs and fibromyalgia patients have both reported significant reductions in pain following 10 weeks of green LED exposure. The investigators aim to assess the analgesic potential of green light therapy for people living with knee osteoarthritis. Participants will be asked to keep a pain diary for 4 weeks prior to light intervention. All participants will first use a white LED (20 lux) for 1-2 hours per day in a dark room at home for 10 weeks. Following a 2-week washout period without light use, participants will use a green LED (20 lux) for 1-2 hours per day in a dark room at home for 10 weeks. Following completion of the intervention, the investigator will assess changes in reported pain and quality of life. The investigators hypothesize that participants will have improvements in pain intensity and quality of life following treatment with green LEDs.

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about how the use of a Shared Decision-Making Tool (SDMT) will impact a patient's decision-making to pursue treatment for knee osteoarthritis.

This study plans to learn more about the effect of adding tissue graft for wrist osteoarthritis reconstruction procedures. Previous studies have shown better allograft stability, and no documented foreign body reaction than with silicone and other synthetic materials.

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and High Tibial Osteotomy are both valid treatment options for isolated medial knee osteoarthritis. Literature to date is lacking high grade evidence of the outcomes between these procedures. This is a study protocol for randomized controlled trial comparing UKA vs HTO in late stage medial knee osteoarthritis.

This is a Post-Marketing Surveillance of SMS femoral stem prosthesis.

A prospective, multi-center, double-arm, parallel, interventional, randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess the rate of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA), total hip arthroplasty (THA) or hip resurfacing (HR) with XPERIENCE™ (XP) Advanced Surgical Irrigation versus dilute Betadine (DB).