Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 4:36 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 4:36 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01434966
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Age 15-50 years
* Insidious onset of patellofemoral pain lasting greater than 1 month in duration
* Unilateral or Bilateral knee pain or dysfunction with at least two of the following symptoms: patella compression, squatting, prolonged sitting, going up or down stairs, or isometric quadriceps contraction.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Participants who are outside of age range (to ensure bony maturity while reducing the prevalence of age related degenerative changes and hypomobility.)
* Ligamentous insufficiency, meniscus damage, patellar tendonitis, history of subluxation/dislocation
* Participants with traumatic spine or lower extremity injury within past 6 months
* Participants who have had previous adverse reactions to electrical stimulation (i.e. electrode burns.)
* Participants with signs indicating lumbar nerve root compression or upper motor neuron lesions (contraindication for lumbopelvic joint manipulation)
* Participants with ankylosing spondylitis (contraindication for lumbopelvic manipulation)
* Participants with spinal cord disease or cauda equina (contraindication for lumbopelvic manipulation)
* Participants with osteoporosis (contraindication for lumbopelvic joint manipulation)
* Participants with rheumatoid arthritis (contraindication to lumbopelvic joint manipulation.)
* Participants who may be currently pregnant. (contraindication for electrical stimulation and lumbopelvic joint manipulation.)
* Participants who have a demand-type cardiac pacemaker (contraindication for electrical stimulation)
* Participants with diagnosis of cancer (current cancer is a contraindication for electrical stimulation and relative contraindication for lumbopelvic joint manipulation)
* Participants who are unable to give consent or are unable to understand procedures of experiment.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
15 Years
Maximum Age:
50 Years
Study:
NCT01434966
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01434966