Active clinical trials for "Musculoskeletal Diseases"

This pilot project will evaluate the potential of an affordable smartphone app to improve users' mental well-being.

To prospectively assess the outcome of PKP assisted with and without MR technology in treatment of OVCF with IVC.

studying coracoid tunnel widening after arthroscopic fixation of acute acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) dislocation using TightRope system and its correlation with loss of reduction and the functional scores.

The purpose of this study is to examine whether an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -guided treatment strategy based on a predefined treatment algorithm can prevent progression of erosive joint damage, increase remission rate and improve functional level in the short and long term in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

This study evaluates surgical site complications in subjects undergoing revision of a total knee arthroplasty when closed incision negative pressure therapy is used to manage the closed incision, as compared to a standard of care dressing.

The goal of this observational study is to learn about patients' preference toward the use of customized and connected prosthesis. The main questions it aims to answer are: What is the acceptability of new customization and connectivity technologies by patients? Are they all at the same level of acceptability? Participants will have to answer to a questionnaire of choice.

The primary care physiotherapy units of the Spanish health service in Castille and Leon (SACYL) are responsible for providing physiotherapy treatments to the general population. Being part of the primary health care system, the actions of these units are aimed at the treatment of common conditions that do not involve severity, frequently musculoskeletal disorders. The work of physiotherapists is closely related to the functionality of patients and, in this sense, the World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a conceptual framework to characterize the functional status of individuals. The use of ICF in the clinical setting is not sufficiently widespread due to the the difficulties that the use of such an exhaustive classification implies in practice. In an attempt to address this problem, the WHO has encouraged the development of reduced versions aimed at responding to specific conditions or care contexts. The idea behind the development of core sets is that it is possible to select a number of categories so as to capture the essence of a given clinical process, allowing an agile use of the ICF. However, in order to put these core sets into practice, it is necessary to check that the selected categories are valid from the perspective of the participants in the clinical processes. The purpose of this research project is to determine whether the musculoskeletal core sets of the ICF are applicable in SACYL primary care physiotherapy units. This implies knowing if the categories already selected in these sets are representative of the health aspects considered as most relevant in the clinical context of physiotherapy in primary care. To achieve this, four studies will be conducted to capture the perspective of patients, physiotherapists, researchers and clinical practice. This information will be translated into the language of the ICF to obtain comparable categories with those present in the core sets. In this way, this research project will make possible to validate or adapt the core sets of the ICF for musculoskeletal conditions, in a specific clinical context of physiotherapy in primary care.

Investigators are interested to see whether patients who received a visit question prompt list before the consultation ask more questions, feel more actively involved in their healthcare, and think of their surgeon as being more empathetic.

This study investigates if live feedback during home-based exercises will improve the ability to perform the exercises with the prescribed time under tension (TUT) per repetition compared with no feedback among adolescents with patellofemoral pain. The hypothesis is that adolescents who receive live feedback from BandCizer™ will have a mean TUT that is significantly closer to the prescribed TUT compared to the group not receiving feedback during the course of the intervention.

Muscular Dystrophy can affect the skeletal muscles and also the heart and breathing muscles, causing significant morbidity and mortality. As patients are now living longer, treatment of muscular dystrophies involves drugs that help improve heart function. However, better types of heart imaging studies are needed to understand how these treatments work. Researchers want to improve heart imaging to identify earlier indicators of heart dysfunction in muscular dystrophy patients and how these are changed by medical treatment. The new imaging indicators will also help identify candidates for entry into future clinical trials.