A Study Of Focused Shockwave For Anterior Knee Pain Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Mayo Clinic

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Treatments: Other: Sham Focused Shockwave; Other: Focused Shockwave

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07580157

26-001203

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Focused Shockwave (FSW) therapy reduces anterior knee pain following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL-R) with bone-patellar tendon-bone (BTB) or quadriceps tendon (QT) autografts.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults ≥18 years of age.
• Have undergone primary ACL-R with BTB or QT autograft.
• Have not previously undergone FSW or radial pressure wave (RPW) in the past for any indication
• Must speak English
• Capacity to provide consent

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or breastfeeding.

• Revision ACL-R.

• History of previous ipsilateral knee surgery.

• Multi-ligament knee injury requiring surgical intervention beyond ACL.

  o Not including concomitant meniscal or chondral injuries addressed at the time of surgery.

• History of deep vein thrombosis.

• Active infection at or near the harvest site.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Focused shockwave

Experimental group

Description:

Focused shockwave (FSW) will be applied to the autograft harvest site for 3 consecutive weekly sessions.

Treatment:

Other: Focused Shockwave

Sham focused shockwave

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The sham focused shockwave will be applied to the autograft harvest site for 3 consecutive weekly sessions.

Treatment:

Other: Sham Focused Shockwave