Clinical trials: Tibial Shaft Fractures
Tibial Shaft Fractures
Carbon Fiber Implants
The investigators will compare intramedullary nailing of open and closed tibia shaft fractures with carbon fiber implant versus titanium implant in a Level I trauma setting.
- Trial name
- NCT03382041
- Testing
- Carbon Fiber Implant, Titanium Implant
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Closed Transverse Fracture of Shaft of Tibia
Union Rate of Transverse Tibia Fracture
The investigators will compare the three methods of seating a tibial nail - Backslapping or Backslapping with Dynamic Locking or Internal Compression.
- Trial name
- NCT03042533
- Testing
- Conventional Compression, Standard Backslapping, Dynamic Locking with Backslapping
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people
- Sponsor
- University of Washington
Fracture
Optimal Vitamin D3 Supplementation Strategies for Acute Fracture Healing
The objective is to determine the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on fracture healing at 3 months.
- Trial name
- Vita-Shock (NCT02786498)
- Testing
- Vitamin D3
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 102 people
- Sponsor
- University of Maryland, Baltimore