PEMF as Adjunctive Treatment Following Surgical Repair of Full Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears
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Official title
Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy as an Adjunctive Treatment to Surgical Repair of Full Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears
Brief summary
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The primary objective of this study is to prospectively determine, at 12 months post-surgical repair of full thickness rotator cuff tears, the safety and efficacy of treating full thickness rotator cuff repairs with pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF). The hypothesis states that exposure to a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) following surgical repair of a full thickness rotator cuff tendon tear reduces tendon re-tear rates. The strength of the shoulder muscles and the levels of pain in subjects after surgical repair of their rotator cuff adjunctively treated with an active PEMF device will also be measured.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03339492
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 377 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 21 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 15, 2018 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2022 (Actual)
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2022 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Aug 30, 2023
2018 – 2022
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 23
- U.S. states
- 14
- U.S. cities
- 20
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The CORE Institute | Phoenix | Arizona | 85023 | — |
| Stanford University | Redwood City | California | 94063 | — |
| UCSF Orthopedics | San Francisco | California | 94158 | — |
| Sabesan Orthopedics Research | Atlantis | Florida | 33462 | — |
| Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | Bradenton | Florida | 34209 | — |
| Holy Cross Hospital | Fort Lauderdale | Florida | 33334 | — |
| Andrews Institute | Gulf Breeze | Florida | 32561 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic Florida | Weston | Florida | 33331 | — |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago | Illinois | 60612 | — |
| Univ. of Maryland Dept of Orthopedics | Baltimore | Maryland | 21201 | — |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore | Baltimore | Maryland | 21215 | — |
| Univ of Michigan Orthopedic Sports Medicine Program | Ann Arbor | Michigan | 48106 | — |
| Univ Orthopedics Associates at Great Neck | Great Neck | New York | 11021 | — |
| Wake Forest Baptist Health | Winston-Salem | North Carolina | 27157 | — |
| Cincinnati Sports Medicine | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45242 | — |
| Univ. of Pennsylvania Orthopedics | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| The Rothman Institute | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107 | — |
| University Orthopedics Center | State College | Pennsylvania | 16801 | — |
| South Carolina Sports Medicine and Orthopedics | North Charleston | South Carolina | 29406 | — |
| The Campbell Clinic | Germantown | Tennessee | 38138 | — |
| Deutsch Shoulder | Houston | Texas | 77401 | — |
| Atlantic Orthopedics | Virginia Beach | Virginia | 23456 | — |
| Jordan-Young Research Institute | Virginia Beach | Virginia | 23462 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 30, 2023 · Synced Oct 22, 2026
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