4 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
The purpose of this research is to look at the effect of massage therapy on the pain, anxiety, and quality of life that pediatric patients have after undergoing spinal fusion surgery. This is a single-site, prospective, randomized, interventional study design that will involve post-thoracic and post-lumbar spinal fusion surgeries of pediatric patients from 7 to 19 years of age that present to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. These patients will be identified prior to their scheduled spinal fusion surgery and recruited to enroll in the study. The planned spinal fusion surgeries are not considered part of this research project, but rather considered standard of care and would occur whether the patient is enrolled in this project or not. Enrolled participants will be followed during their inpatient stay and through their subsequent follow-up visits at weeks 2, 6, and 12. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a massage therapy group or a group that receives the standard (normal) care for recovery after surgery. The final study involvement will occur at week 16 (post-hospital discharge) where a study team member will administer a quality of life (PedsQL) questionnaire via phone or mail with the subject. Data will be collected after study related procedures are completed.
The study uses a yoga-like isometric posture and botulinum injections to reduce the curves in adolescent idiopathic lumbar scoliosis. Three previous studies show that the yoga pose is effective for reversing scoliotic curves; Botulinum toxin has been approved by the FDA for teenagers. However, no studies using the two of them together have been done until this one.
The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes of subjects undergoing multilevel lumbar fusion (MLF) surgery with and without the iFuse 3-D implants in the "bedrock" trajectory.
This study is being done to compare people who had a standard of care spinal fusion using part of their local bone graft (a small amount of bone from the region of the spine where the fusion is occurring) to correct an adult spinal deformity and people who will have a standard of care spinal fusion using a mixture of Actifuse ABX® (a market approved bone graft substitute) and a local bone graft (a small amount of bone from the region of the spine where the fusion is occurring). This study will compare the outcomes of both groups to help the Orthopaedic surgeon conducting spinal fusions in the future. Investigators expect that Actifuse ABX® will be as good if not better than just a local bone graft.