ESWT as a Treatment for Chronic NHO in TBI Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

12

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2014

Primary Completion Date

September 13, 2018

Study Completion Date

September 13, 2018

Conditions
TBI Traumatic Brain Injury
Interventions
DEVICE

ESWT - Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy

"Patients will receive:~* Four applications of EWST to be delivered to the affected hip and /or knee over a period of eight weeks : starting week 8\\52 from baseline until and including week 14\\52, one dose every two weeks ± 3 days), administered by the principal investigator.~* Dosage will be calculated for each participant, by the manufacturer, according to the size of NHO as recorded on X-ray.~* The energy flux density (EFD) will be 'high level'~* All participants will be supplied with headphones to reduce the noise level emitted by the machine."

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Loewenstein Rehabilitation Center, Raanana

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

OTHER

collaborator

University of Melbourne

OTHER

collaborator

Medispec

INDUSTRY

lead

Loewenstein Hospital

OTHER