Clinical trials: Hand Grip Strength
Handgrip Strength
Direct Current Cathode and Anode Effects and Changes in Handgrip Strength. Evaluation Through a Dynamometer Test
The design aims to investigate the value of direct current, specifically the polar effects this has, and its influence on neuromuscular changes described in the literature.
- Trial name
- NCT02884427
- Testing
- Cathode stimulation, Anode stimulation
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Quiropraxia y Equilibrio
Radius Fractures
Non-bridging Fixator Versus Percutaneous Pinning for Distal Radius Fractures
The treatment of extra-articular distal radius fractures is still controversial. In Canada, most patients with unstable fractures are treated with pinning and cast.
- Trial name
- NCT00908895
- Testing
- Radio-radial fixator, Percutaneous pinning
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Hopital de l'Enfant-Jesus
Hand and Upper Extremity Illness
The Effect of Priming of Questionnaire Content on Grip Strength in Patients With Hand and Upper Extremity Illness
Objectives: To determine the association between priming and measurements of hand function such as grip strength Primary null hypothesis: There is no difference in grip strength (best of three attempts) as a percent of the…
- Trial name
- NCT02493127
- Testing
- Standard PCS, Grip Strength, Positively Adjusted PCS
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 122 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Breast Cancer, Arthralgia
Loss of Grip Strength, BMI, and Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy Breast Cancer
Early stage hormone receptor positive breast cancer is typically treated with adjuvant endocrine therapy in order to decrease risk of breast cancer recurrence and to improve overall survival from the disease.
- Conditions
- Breast Cancer, Arthralgia, Obesity
- Trial name
- LOGRIBMET (NCT01896050)
- Testing
- anastrozole, letrozole, exemestane, Tamoxifen
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 115 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Stroke
Novel Training Environment to Normalize Altered Finger Force Direction Post Stroke
Despite the functional importance, fingertip forces are rarely explicitly addressed with feedback in therapy. This gap in treatment is due to a lack of tools to provide explicit feedback on patients' volitional finger force…
- Trial name
- NEAD (NCT03995069)
- Testing
- 3D, 1D
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Cachexia
Regimen for the Treatment of Cachexia in Subjects With NSCLC
Cachexia is a presentation of a chronic manifestation of acute metabolic stress, a hypercatabolic nutritional state in which the normal fat and protein sparing mechanisms are not functioning and increased nutrition is not…
- Trial name
- VT-122 (NCT00527319)
- Testing
- VT-122 low dose, VT-122 high dose
- Where
- 8 sites in United States, India
- Volunteers
- 37 people
- Sponsor
- Vicus Therapeutics
Stroke With Hemiparesis
Study of Botulinum Toxin and Recovery of Hand Function After Stroke
The purpose of this study is to determine whether injections of botulinum toxin (commonly known as BOTOX®) into the affected hand of Stroke patients, while targeting the muscles controlling the hand, will lead to improved use of…
- Trial name
- NCT01422161
- Testing
- Botulinum Toxin commonly known as BOTOX®
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
DeQuervain's Tenosynovitis
A Clinical Trial of Splinting for DeQuervain's Tenosynovitis
DeQuervain's tenosynovitis is characterized by pain on the pain on the radial (thumb) side of the wrist problems with thumb function.
- Trial name
- NCT00438191
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Breast Cancer
Study of Changes in Estrogen Levels and Grip Strength in Postmenopausal Women Who Have Received 4 to 6 Years of Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer and Are Currently Receiving Letrozole on Clinical Trial IBCSG-35-07
RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood in the laboratory from patients receiving treatment for cancer may help doctors learn more about changes that may occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer.
- Trial name
- SOLE-EST (NCT01281137)
- Testing
- polymorphism analysis, laboratory biomarker analysis, quality-of-life assessment
- Where
- 2 sites in Australia, Belgium
- Volunteers
- 104 people
- Sponsor
- ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Comparison of Two Techniques for the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The main objective of this study is to compare the complete section of the transverse carpal ligament with another median nerve release technique and to determine if the incidence of post-surgical pillar pain is lower for either…
- Trial name
- STCCOT (NCT05468814)
- Testing
- Z-plasty, Conventional
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 120 people
- Sponsor
- Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia de Cordoba