Compression and Cold Therapy on the Post-Operative Shoulder
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Postoperative Pain, Shoulder Pain
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare clinical post-operative outcomes for patients using active cooling and compression device and those using ice bags and elastic wrap after acromioplasty or arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00703729
- Run by
- University of Colorado, Denver
- People needed
- 58
- Starts
- 2008-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-09-10
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patient has undergone unilateral Rotator cuff repair or Acromioplasty
- Willing to sign a consent form
- Able to follow study procedures
You may not qualify if…
- Non-ambulatory
- Participation in concurrent investigational protocol
- Any bleeding coagulopathies
- Raynaud's disease or other vasospastic hypersensitivity or circulatory syndromes
- Hypertension (due to secondary vasoconstriction)
- Compromised local circulation (including localized compromise due to multiple surgical procedures)
- A history of vascular impairment (such as frostbite or arterial sclerosis)
- Cold allergy (cold urticaria) or prior adverse reactions to cold application
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Local limb ischemia
- Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria
- Cryoglobulinemia or any disease that produces a marked cold pressor response
- Inflammatory phlebitis
- Acute inflammations of the veins (thrombophlebitis)
- Decompensated cardiac insufficiency
- Arterial dysregulation
- Erysipelas
- Deep acute venal thrombosis (phlebothrombosis)
- Carcinoma and carcinoma metastasis in the affected extremity
- Decompensated hypertonia
- Pulmonary embolisms
- Congestive heart failure
- Pulmonary edema
- Suspected deep vein thrombosis
- Acute inflammatory skin diseases
Where it is running
- CU Sports Medicine — Boulder, Colorado, United States
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