Blood Flow Restriction Training After Patellar INStability
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Official title
Blood Flow Restriction Training After Patellar INStability (BRAINS Trial)
Brief summary
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This research study is designed to allow health care professionals and researchers to answer many questions about whether a new type of physical therapy called blood flow restriction training (called BFRT) will improve recovery for those with patellar instability.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04554212
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 78 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 14 Years to 40 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
- Sep 8, 2020
- Primary completion
- Jun 29, 2027
- Completion
- Jun 29, 2027
- Last update posted
- Aug 20, 2026
2020 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 4
- U.S. states
- 2
- U.S. cities
- 2
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Healthcare at Turfland | Lexington | Kentucky | 40504 | Recruiting |
| University of Kentucky Biomotion Laboratory | Lexington | Kentucky | 40536 | Recruiting |
| Center for Sports Performance and Research | Foxborough | Massachusetts | 02035 | Recruiting |
| Foxboro Sports Medicine Clinic | Foxborough | Massachusetts | 02035 | Recruiting |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Aug 20, 2026 · Synced Sep 7, 2026
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