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NCT ID: NCT05763108 Completed - Clinical trials for Recurrent Patellar Dislocation

Clinical Significance and Coexistence of Polymorphisms of Individual Collagen-coding Genes

Start date: April 1, 2022
Phase:
Study type: Observational

The purpose of this study is to assess correlation between recurrent patella dislocation and genetic polymorphism rs1800012 of the COL1A1 Gene and rs12722 of the COL5A1 Gene.

NCT ID: NCT05177549 Recruiting - Ligament; Laxity Clinical Trials

Evaluation of Anterior Tibial Translation of the Knee in Healthy Women, at Two Times of the Menstrual Cycle, on Hormonal Contraceptives or Not (FLEX)

FLEX
Start date: June 8, 2022
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

Women's participation in sports at all levels has been increasing in recent decades. Many individual and team sports are at risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This injury leads to a permanent or long-lasting interruption of sports practice and to significant medical and economic expenses. Women are recognized as being more at risk of anterior cruciate ligament injury with a risk 6 times higher than men. Hyperlaxity is a risk factor for anterior cruciate ligament injury, but the pathophysiological bases are little studied. Hormonal impregnation and certain periods of the menstrual cycle (ovulatory phase) are risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament injury. It therefore seems interesting to investigators to study the influence of hormonal impregnation on ligament laxity. To date no study has investigated such a relationship.

NCT ID: NCT03747198 Completed - Tendon Injuries Clinical Trials

Methylsulfonylmethane on Knee Laxity

Start date: February 1, 2019
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional

The proposed research will focus on determining the effect of methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) on knee laxity changes through the menstrual cycle in young active females. As an extension to recent discovery, that MSM reverses the negative effect of estrogen on engineered ligament function, the proposed work is designed to determine whether MSM can decrease the negative effect of estrogen on knee laxity in females. Ligament function is determined by the content and cross-linking of collagen, which is influenced by a milieu of biochemical and mechanical parameters. The greater the amount and cross-linking the greater the stiffness and strength of these connective tissues. In engineered ligaments it has been previously shown that the high levels of estrogen, normally present in the days before and after ovulation, can inhibit the cross-linking enzyme lysyl oxidase. This decrease in collagen cross-linking likely increases connective tissue laxity and contributes to observed 4-fold greater occurrence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture in females. Conversely, MSM increases collagen cross-linking and recent work conducted by the Baar lab in engineered human ligaments treated with high estrogen demonstrated that MSM could completely reverse the effects of estrogen on ligament mechanics. The proposed research aims to advance this promising pre-clinical data and apply in a clinical trial. This research also proposes to quantify that knee laxity increases up to 5mm between the first day of menstruation and the day after ovulation and also that the magnitude of the increase in laxity is directly related to the magnitude of the change in estrogen. Importantly, a direct relationship between knee laxity and ACL rupture exists. For every 1.3mm increase in anterior-posterior knee displacement, the odds of ACL rupture increase 4-fold. Therefore, any treatment that decreases knee laxity could be expected to reduce ACL ruptures and have widespread application across the general active population and high-level athletics.