Osteoarthritis Paid Clinical Trials in Illinois

OBJECTIVES: Physical activity has been established as an important component of rehabilitation for knee osteoarthritis (OA), and is often guided by a physical therapist.(1) Physical therapy for knee OA typically involves 1-3 sessions with a licensed physical therapist per week, for up to 12 weeks. These sessions can take a lot of time and effort for subjects, particularly when travel times are considered. Remote patient monitoring is an emerging treatment method which can help to reduce the need for in-person treatment sessions. Remote patient monitoring has been tested in subjects after a total knee arthroplasty, and initial results show that subjects find the process motivating and engaging.(2) This process has not been tested in individuals with symptomatic knee OA. Prior studies have shown that personalized internet based programs are effective at improving function in individuals with knee OA(3), but the effectiveness of these programs with remote patient monitoring is unknown. One example of current wearable technology that can be utilized for remote patient monitoring is the Opum (OPUM) Digital Knee® (ODK) modular orthotic. The ODK utilizes a wearable device in a knee brace which relays real time information back to the subject and physical therapist via their mobile phone. The ODK can provide information about sagittal and frontal plane knee kinematics, sagittal plane knee range of motion, time spent performing various daily activities, time spent exercising, overall load on the knee joint, and progress over time in each of these metrics. This device has been previously tested in subjects after an ACL reconstruction, but has yet to be tested in subjects with knee osteoarthritis. The objective of this study is to assess the effect of the ODK technology in a medial knee unloader brace with remote patient monitoring on pain, function, and quality of life in individuals with knee OA. This study will contain two groups: A control group receiving a medial unloader brace and a personalized home exercise program, and an intervention group which will receive an ODK in a medial off-loader brace, and a home exercise program with remote patient monitoring. The hypothesis is that subjects who wear the knee brace with the ODK with remote patient monitoring will have a greater reduction in pain and increase in quality of life than those who receive the brace with a home exercise program. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to determine the dose effect of a single injectable acellular amniotic membrane derived allograft for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis and to confirm whether the use of 2 mL of the same amniotic injection offers a statistically significant advantage over the 1 mL injection when compared to a placebo. Read Less

Our goal is to compare the serum biomarker changes of joint disease that occur in response to partially off-loaded (50%) walking exercise to regular (100%) walking exercise while on a Lower Body Positive Pressure (LBPP) treadmill. Secondly we are determining the relationship between changes in the concentration of these serum biomarkers and participant reported knee pain while walking on a LBPP treadmill. Read Less

The investigators goal is to provide a mechanism that allows for a better understanding of patient outcomes following rehabilitation. This includes functional outcomes measured by standardized and validated tools from the published literature. It incorporates comorbidities and patient demographic characteristics. It includes measures of general health as well along with activities of daily living and behavioral health aspects. Measures of quality and satisfaction and use of Net Promoter Scores also are included. All of these components come together to form a remarkably comprehensive picture of patients and their associated outcomes. This is a unique milestone in rehabilitative care and will act to inform and direct evidence-based approaches and treatment guidelines. Data are collected via the investigators proprietary electronic medical record system and are synthetic to the clinical process-that is, the data are collected in real-time with patients and the scores are immediately provided to the treating therapist as well as archived for later Registry and scientific use. Subsequent reporting can be risk adjusted to any variable collected which yields robust insights as to idiopathic patient conditions. However, no PHI information will be available. Read Less