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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 21 January 2013
Main ID:  NCT01420887
Date of registration: 13/07/2011
Primary sponsor: Mayo Clinic
Public title: Preservation of Joint Function Using Postoperative Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) A Pilot Study CPM
Scientific title: Preservation of Joint Function Using Postoperative Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) A Pilot Study
Date of first enrolment: September 2013
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01420887
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Tyson L. Scrabeck
Address: 
Telephone: 507-538-1016
Email: scrabeck.tyson@mayo.edu
Affiliation: 
Name:   Shawn O Driscoll, MD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Mayo Clinic
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

To be included, each patient must meet ALL of the following:

1. Lack of elbow flexion and/or extension, with or without pain.

2. The contracture must have been present for at least six months and failed to respond
to non-surgical treatment.

3. Surgery to be performed will be an open or arthroscopic capsulectomy or osteocapsular
arthroplasty with removal of heterotopic ossification as necessary (participants will
be stratified according to open or arthroscopic surgery).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Contraindication to use of CPM or regional brachial plexus block, such as bleeding
diathesis, use of anticoagulants or severe restriction in shoulder range of movement.

2. Preoperative neuropathy or neuritis, except for isolated intermittent ulnar neuritis.

3. Neuromuscular disorder, including spasticity that might limit ability to completely
participate in rehabilitation.

4. Psychiatric disorder, including spasticity that might limit ability to cooperate with
rehabilitation.

5. Progressive inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis.



Age minimum: 13 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Elbow Injury
Intervention(s)
Procedure: Continuous Passive Motion
Procedure: Physical Therapy
Primary Outcome(s)
Recurrence of elbow contracture [Time Frame: 1 year]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Subsequent injury or disease of the affected elbow [Time Frame: 1 year]
Secondary ID(s)
11-000601
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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