Athletic Injuries Clinical Trials

Phase III study in patients with a Recent History of Moderate to Severe Chronic Low Back Pain currently treated with Opioids.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences are inviting you to participate in a study about how chronic ankle instability may contribute to the development of post-traumatic ankle osteoarthritis and knee osteoarthritis.

Healthy collegiate athletes (football, soccer, rugby, hockey, and volleyball) will take Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) or placebo twice daily for 84 days. Pre- and post-intervention evaluations include physical assessment, blood tests for safety and toxicity monitoring, blood tests for biomarkers, neurologic testing, quality of life questionnaires, and the 31P MRI exam.

Acute injuries of the hamstring muscle complex (HMC) are frequently observed in various sports disciplines both in elite and recreational sport, and are the most common injury in soccer. Despite intensive research into prevention and management of acute HMC injury during the last decade epidemiological data show no decline in ...

Football players wear a football helmet containing the InSite Impact Response System that measures when, how hard, and where the helmet is hit. Coaches (or athletic trainer) are notified of threshold impacts via a sideline handheld device. Each year pre and post-season, subjects will complete several tests of brain function ...

Background and rationale: Acute hamstring muscle strain injuries represent the most prevalent non-contact muscle injury reported in sports. Despite the high prevalence and a rapidly expanding body of literature investigating hamstring muscle strain injuries, [1] occurrence and re-injury rates have not improved over the last three decades [2]. Therefore, rehabilitation ...

Medical providers are often faced with patients whose source of pain may be the result of an inflammatory response caused by trauma or disease. By managing the patient's inflammation, the clinician may see improved response to traditional pain management therapy and existing protocols. Also, degenerative arthritis of spinal and extremity ...

To investigate prevalence and profile of sports injury in Taiwanese adolescent baseball players in a longitudinal study.

Judo is one of the possible items in our country to win the first prize in Olympics. However, scientific research in this field is not enough to support the coaches to train the athletes. Series of research should be planned and executed to help the coaches and to promote the ...

For this study, a proposal of a 8-week intervention program will be carried out with lumbar stabilization exercises and back strengthening exercises, in 32 athletes with chronic low back, recruited by convenience and voluntaries from the community local and sports centers. Before intervention, all participantes will be evaluated by: electromoyography ...