Active clinical trials for "Rotator Cuff Injuries"

This study was a single-center, randomized, single-blind clinical trial. We plan to include 100 patients who met exclusion criteria of rotator cuff and lateral epicondylosis (tennis elbow) respectively by MRT or ultrasonography. The patients will be randomly divided into two groups. Adipose mesenchymal stem cells will be isolated from adipose tissue, cultured and then transplanted back to the tendon injury site by multiple point injection. 1*10^6 cells as an unit. Patients in the experiment group will be injected into an unit of adipose mesenchymal stem cells (1*10^6/10kg) while the control group received the same dose compound betamethasone injection. Follow up visit for all patients will occur at 1，3，6 and 12 months after the first injection. Clinical quantitative assessment will measure by the visual analogue scale(VAS). The secondary outcomes are the constant-murley score(CMS) and the rating scale of the American shoulder and elbow surgeons(ASES) and the disability of arm shoulder and hand(DASH). The objective evaluation methods is that the examination of MRI or ultrasound were accomplished before the first injection and at 6 and 12 months afterwards.

During rotator cuff tear healing stages, there are complex interactions between a variety of tissue growth factors and cells, ultimately resulting in tissue that is markedly different from that of normal, uninjured tendon. Hence, there is a strong drive to investigate the role of potential therapies in the form of biological augments that may restore the pathologic tissue to a near normal physiological state. In this context, low-level laser therapy (LLLT) may be an effective choice in the treatment of nonoperative small and medium-sized rotator cuff tears (RCT). To the best of our knowledge, there is no randomized controlled study investigating the effects of the LLLT in patients with a RCT size not exceeding 3 cm. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to investigate all the possible effects of the LLLT in terms of functional status, pain-free mobility, and quality-of-life.

Shoulder pain is a common complaint with the most common reason being tendinopathy and/or tearing of the rotator cuff. While many rotator cuff tears are often considered normal, age-related degenerative disorders, with either partial- or full-thickness rotator cuff tears evident in 4% of patients aged <40 years and in 54% of patients aged >60 years, once they become symptomatic and conservative management fails, they are typically repaired surgically. Data suggest that the incidence of surgery to repair and re-attach the cuff continues to rise. However, despite positive clinical results overall, reports of repair failure after surgery can range from 16%-94%, and of those that do fail, or fail to heal, generally do so within the first 3 to 6 months post-surgery. Given the aforementioned reported issues with the gold standard for the treatment of unresponsive and symptomatic partial or full rotator cuff tears (surgical repair), together with the invasiveness of this surgery and lengthy period of restricted activity, other means of treatment have been proposed. The REGENETEN scaffold/implant seeks to support new tendon growth and disrupt disease progression. This study seeks to investigate the outcome of surgical rotator cuff repair versus scaffold augmentation (using the REGENETEN scaffold) for symptomatic partial thickness rotator cuff tears.

this study aimed to investigate the effect of 3 types of cervical mobilization on the strength of shoulder abductors, external rotators and pain level in patient with rotator cuff tendinitis. the measurement will be made immediately, 10 minutes, and 30 minutes after mobilization

Rotator cuff tear is one of the common injuries that cause shoulder pain in the elderly. After the rotator cuff tendon is injured, repairing the torn rotator cuff tendon through arthroscopic surgery is an effective treatment that is currently widely used. In the rotator cuff injury, irreparable rotator cuff injury is a difficult point in treatment, especially for patients with a long injury time, the obvious shrinkage of the injured tendon, muscle atrophy and steatosis may occur, all of which lead to the poor quality of the rotator cuff tendon needed to be repaired , Poor healing ability, seriously affecting the shoulder joint function and daily life of these patients. For this part of patients, arthroscopic partial repair of torn rotator cuffs is one of the commonly used methods. In addition, in recent years, superior capsular reconstruction has been gradually applied to the clinic and has achieved good clinical effects, but there are no controlled studies to compare Clinical effect of partial repair and superior capsular reconstruction on irreparable rotator cuff injury.

The primary purpose of this study is to determine if the postoperative oral narcotics consumption in patients receiving liposomal bupivacaine (LB) interscalene brachial plexus nerve block (ISBPB) is different than the narcotics consumption receiving traditional bupivacaine ISBPB for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair analgesia.

Altered scapular movement is a common impairment among patients with subacromial impingement syndrome (SAIS). Nevertheless scapular focused interventions have resulted in conflicting findings among this population. One possible reason for this is the inability to identify patients with SAIS who will respond favorably to a scapular focused intervention. The scapular assistance test (SAT) may be one possible indicator of patients most likely to benefit from a scapular focused intervention, particularly one that emphasizes scapular upward rotation. The purpose of this study is to examine targeted upward rotation intervention in patients demonstrating a positive Scapular Assistance test.

The study aims to establish whether one month postoperative immobilization compared early passive motion after rotator cuff arthroscopic repair in small or medium ruptures with double row technique has any healing significance.

There is not a clear understanding of the origin of symptoms perceived by patients with impingement of the soft tissue structures of the subacromial space. Tendinopathy, tendon rupture or other pathologies, are present in asymptomatic subjects and subjects with symptoms and structural integrity can also be found. Patients diagnosed with subacromial impingement syndrome frequently have myofascial trigger points in the teres major muscle. Travell and Simons reported that the symptoms caused by trigger points in this muscle are similar to those experienced by patients diagnosed with impingement syndrome, but a literature search provides few results regarding relationship between subacromial impingement syndrome and presence of myofascial trigger points in the teres major muscle. This study aims to provide evidence of the results that can be obtained with a specific approach of teres mayor muscle by two manual techniques, Trigger Point Pressure Release and Diacutaneous Fibrolysis, in subjects with subacromial impingement syndrome, a condition that still representing both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Secondary objective is to compare the outcomes between both techniques to select for each patient the most appropriate to their needs and characteristics.

The purpose of this project is to compare operative repair of traumatically torn rotator cuff tendon with physiotherapy in a randomized prospective study.