View clinical trials related to Knee Osteoarthritis.
Filter by:This purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the iovera° device for the temporary reduction of pain associated with knee osteoarthritis.
Despite improvements in treatment, a significant part of patients have severe pain following knee arthroplasty. Preoperative identification of high-risk patients would allow for an intensive individualized analgesic treatment pre- and postoperatively and thus potentially in reduced pain acute and chronically.
This study is looking at the efficacy of a sloped insole in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Regularly wearing a sloped insole over the course of one year will result in a wider joint space by x-ray in 60% of the subjects, a significant decrease in knee pain, decreased use of over the counter analgesics, and a clinically important improvement in the Womac pain and stiffness scale.
Although few studies have showed beneficial effect of platelet rich plasma (PRP) for osteoarthritis of knee (OA knee), only one study applied randomized, control method and none of them has the objective measurements such as balance test or muscle strength which were reported as decrease in patients with OA knees. We assess the analgesic effect and the extent of improved muscle strength and balance after PRP in patients with OA knee.
The aim of this study was to evaluate symptomatic efficacy of native collagen type 2 on joint pain and function and its effects on urinary biological markers related to cartilage degeneration in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a widespread problem in Canada, leading to decreased quality of life and increased economic burden. Current research has focused on expensive, invasive treatments, whereas inexpensive conservative treatments have received less attention. One such treatment is the use of orthotics to reduce pain and increase function in people with knee OA. Currently, clinical practice guidelines for the use of orthotics are vague and contradictory, and could benefit from more research taking into account foot posture. This study aims to compare the use of two orthotics designs in people with knee OA.
Patients scheduled to undergo total knee arthroplasty will receive motor sparing knee blocks with continuous adductor canal block along with multimodal analgesia started pre-operatively and continued into the postoperative period. The study will evaluate the feasibility of home discharge within the first 24 hours following total knee arthroplasty. We will also evaluate the pain scores in the first 5 days following the surgery, causes of delayed discharge and any adverse events.
Previous study demonstrated that neuroinflammation induced by surgery is the main cause of the postoperative cognitive dysfunction. As an agonist of NMDA receptor, ketamine is proved to be an anti-inflammation agent. In present study investigators hypothesized that low dose ketamine would prevent the cognition decline after orthopedic surgery in aged patients.
This study is designed as a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, four parallel arm, dose-finding study, to be conducted in approximately 26 sites, to evaluate the efficacy, safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of single intra-articular (IA) injections of fasitibant in patients with symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Approximately 400 male and female patients 40-80 years old, with BMI < 30 kg/m² and with a clinical diagnosis of symptomatic primary osteoarthritis of the knee will be randomised to a total of 4 treatment arms. Each arm includes a single intra-articular injection of one of three dosages of fasitibant (low, intermediate and high dose) OR placebo. The randomisation ratio will be 1:1:1:1. The primary efficacy variable will be the change of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Visual Analogue Scale 3.1 A (WOMAC VA 3.1 A) (total pain) subscore from baseline up to 2 weeks after randomisation. Safety will be assessed by monitoring adverse events and clinical laboratory tests; local tolerability at the injection site will also be assessed. In addition, the population pharmacokinetics and the exposure-response relationship will be evaluated. The individual experimental clinical phase will last up to maximal 15 weeks encompassing 7 planned visits at site, including screening, randomisation, 4 follow-up visits and the End of study visit.
The objective of this study is to compare the results of 2000 impulses of radius shockwaves per week with 2000 placebo shockwaves on the treatment of pain and functional incapacity of patients with severe primary knee osteoarthritis, who did not satisfactory respond to previous conventional treatments.