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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers Results available

Effects of Unloader Bracing in Clinical Outcome and Cartilage Physiology Following Microfracture of Chondral Defects

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02016300

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Official title

Effects of Unloader Bracing in Clinical Outcome and Articular Cartilage Physiology Following Microfracture of Isolated Chondral Defects

Brief summary

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The study will examine clinical and radiographic outcomes of microfracture surgery (a common technique to address isolated areas of cartilage loss) in the knee used with or without unloader bracing. Randomly selected patients will wear an unloader brace, which is designed to take pressure off the area of the knee which underwent repair, for several weeks after surgery. Our hypothesis is that bracing may improve clinical and or radiographic outcomes. The surgery performed will be the same for all patients The length of follow up and schedule of post-operative MRI will be the same for all patients. The only difference in groups will be presence of absence of brace wear.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT02016300
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Not applicable
Lead sponsor: Stanford University; Other
Enrollment: 24 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Unloader Bracing Device
Non-Bracing Device

Device

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 15 Years to 40 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date: Jan 2013 (Actual)
Primary completion: Jun 2018 (Actual)
Completion: Jun 2018 (Actual)
Last update posted: Jun 27, 2019

2013 – 2018

United States locations

U.S. sites: 1
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 1

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
Stanford University Medical Center	Redwood City	California	94063	—

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