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Effects of Unloader Bracing in Clinical Outcome and Articular Cartilage Physiology Following Microfracture of Isolated Chondral Defects
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Unloader Bracing and Non-Bracing for Cartilage Loss and Microfracture. Completed, enrolled 24 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The study will examine clinical and radiographic outcomes of microfracture surgery (a common technique to address isolated areas of cartilage loss) in the knee used with or without unloader bracing. Randomly selected patients will wear an unloader brace, which is designed to take pressure off the area of the knee which underwent repair, for several weeks after surgery. Our hypothesis is that bracing may improve clinical and or radiographic outcomes. The surgery performed will be the same for all patients The length of follow up and schedule of post-operative MRI will be the same for all patients. The only difference in groups will be presence of absence of brace wear.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The bracing arm patients will be randomly selected and will wear an unloader brace post-operatively during the study period.
Microfracture performed with no post-operative unloader bracing