Fracture Recovery for Returning to Duty (Teriparatide STRONG)
Enrolling by invitation · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Stress Fracture of Tibia or Fibula
In brief
The project goals are to improve combat readiness of U.S. Soldiers and sustain the availability of the military to deploy by, 1) decreasing the number of days not physically ready for duty after diagnosis of a diaphyseal tibial stress fracture, 2) decreasing the need for a physical profile or medical discharge board after bone stress injury, and 3) decreasing the recurrence rates of bone stress injuries.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04589819
- Run by
- University of South Carolina
- People needed
- 183
- Starts
- 2022-12-08
- Expected to finish
- 2026-12-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-02-13
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Soldiers actively enlisted in the U.S. Army attached to basic training unit at Fort Jackson
- Soldiers diagnosed with a tibial diaphyseal BSI requiring convalescent leave
- Skeletally mature
- Willing to self-administer study medication
- Desire to continue their military commitment
You may not qualify if…
- History of any form of cancer
- Currently pregnant
- Paget's disease of bone
- Unexplained elevations of alkaline phosphatase (elevations in alkaline phosphatase may signal undiagnosed Paget's disease of bone)
- Pediatric and young adult patients with open epiphyses
- Prior external beam or implant radiation therapy involving the skeleton
- Recent (within the last 6 months) urolithiasis (kidney stones)
- Elevated serum calcium, alkaline phosphatase or uric acid
- Orthostatic hypotension
Where it is running
- Fort Jackson — Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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