All clinical trials

The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to determine the effects of Virtual reality rehabilitation and muscle energy techniques in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome for reducing pain, enhancing knee range of motion and improve functional activities.

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effectiveness of a new 14-week individually-tailored home-based rehabilitation program called "Stronger at Home" with usual care in improving functional recovery in community-dwelling older adults after hip fractures. The main question this trial aims to answer are: • Is the Stronger at Home program more effective than usual care in improving functional recovery at the end of the 14-week intervention? secondary questions include: What is the cost-utility of the Stronger at Home program compared to usual care at 3.5 months, 6 months, and 12 months after discharge? Does the program have a sustained impact on functional recovery at 6 months and 12 months post-discharge? Participants in the trial will be asked to engage in the following tasks: Participate in the Stronger at Home program, which includes using a self-directed toolkit consisting of educational resources and an illustrated exercise program. Follow the guidelines provided in the toolkit for gradually increasing exercise intensity and incorporating different types of exercises into their daily life. The effects of the Stronger at Home program will be compared to those of usual care.

People of low socio economic status (SES) more often than others suffer from chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or coronary diseases. Compared to others People of low SES more often have to deal with multiple diseases (multimorbidity) and experience worse health outcomes. The health literacy of people of low SES is often low. Current chronic disease management programs focus on reducing the burden of a single disease by prescribing medication, protocoled monitoring routines, or lifestyle advice. However, the effectiveness of these interventions is low in people with low SES, as the interventions insufficiently take into account the specific problems and needs of this (multimorbid) population. A person-centered and integrated-care approach, that puts the patient at the center of care instead of the disease and in which care is tailored to the individual patient with chronic disease(s), seems to be more appropriate, but only when low SES people are closely involved in the development, testing, and evaluation of such an approach. Also, certain preconditions should be met, such as training of specific knowledge and skills of the healthcare professionals involved. In the EMBOSS project, the investigators will develop, test, evaluate, and implement a person-centered integrated-care approach for and in close collaboration with people with low SES who have one or more chronic diseases. Thus, the EMBOSS study will have the potential to reducing health disparities in this group, to broadening the action perspectives of general practitioners and practice nurses for an increasing diverse patient population and to a better fit of lifestyle interventions in people of low SES.

The objective of this study the first human use of a new device in treatment of acute ischemic stroke, which to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of the Cerebrovascular Interventional Procedural Control System.

The investigators are doing this research study to compare whole body aerobic training with isolated leg training (with weights) and its impact on effectiveness in symptoms and quality of life in patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH).

Psoriasis (PsO) is a chronic disease characterized by marked inflammation of the skin that results in thick, red, scaly plaques. This study will assess how safe and effective risankizumab is in adult participants with moderate to severe genital psoriasis or moderate to severe scalp psoriasis. Adverse events and change in disease signs and symptoms will be monitored. Risankizumab (Skyrizi) is a drug being studied for the treatment of moderate to severe genital psoriasis or moderate to severe scalp psoriasis. Approximately 200 participants with moderate to severe genital psoriasis or moderate to severe scalp psoriasis will be enrolled across approximately 45 sites globally. The study will be broken up into 2 sub-studies by disease location, participants with moderate to severe genital psoriasis (Study G) and moderate to severe scalp psoriasis (Study S). In both sub-studies participants will receive subcutaneous (SC) injections of risankizumab during the 52 week treatment period, or SC injections of placebo risankizumab during the 16 week treatment period followed by SC injections of risankizumab during the 36 week treatment period, with an 8-week follow-up period after the 52 week treatment period. There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood tests, checking for side effects and completing questionnaires.

In this prospective study, emergency physicians perform ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block for patients with hip fractures. We compare the effectiveness of analgesia and patient satisfaction of ultrasound-guided femoral nerve block with liberal use of the pain medication in the emergency department. The primary outcome is the assessment of time to relief the pain with fewer adverse effects and less rescue pain medication use. The secondary outcome is patient satisfaction with pain management.

The objective of this trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and safeness of personalized brain functional sectors (pBFS) technology-guided continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) on the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) combined with the superior temporal gyrus (STG) for language function recovery in post-stroke aphasic patients.

In this study, a randomized, double-blind, parallel-controlled trial was employed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of personalized brain functional sectors (pBFS) technology-guided continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) on the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) combined with the superior temporal gyrus (STG) and the superior frontal gyrus (SFG) for language function recovery in post-stroke aphasic patients.

This is a phase I study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics (PK), and Preliminary Efficacy of BC3195 in Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors.