Walking feedback training after knee ligament surgery to look at early knee arthritis signs
Tests real-time walking feedback in people after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Where
- Chapel Hill, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Gait Rehabilitation to Treat FastOA
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 70 people, planned
- Started
- 13 Jun 2023
- Expected to end
- Jun 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Real-time gait biofeedback
- Sham real-time gait biofeedback
- Record updated
- 25 June 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for young people who had anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee surgery and put too little load on that leg when walking. It tests walking feedback training over 6 weeks.
- Age
- 16 to 35 years
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- ACL reconstruction surgery done between 6 and 60 months before joining. Underloading while walking (vGRF impact peak <1.12 x BW).
- Earlier treatment
- Must have finished all other formal physical therapy.
- Biomarker or test result
- Gait test showing vGRF impact peak <1.12 x BW.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Surgery on more than one knee ligament (for example PCL)
- A fracture of the leg (for example displaced tibial plateau fracture)
- Knee osteoarthritis
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Have completed all other formal physical therapy
- Are between the ages of 16 and 35
- Underwent an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) between 6 and 60 months prior to enrollment
- Demonstrate underloading during gait (vGRF- impact peak <1.12 x BW)
Who cannot take part
- A multiple ligament surgery (i.e., PCL)
- A lower extremity fracture (i.e., displaced tibial plateau fracture)
- Knee osteoarthritis
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 16 and 35 years old?
Where in United States
- University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, United StatesContact: Natalia Favoreto, MSTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of real-time gait biofeedback delivered over a 6-week period on early markers of FastOA and conduct 6-week and 6-month follow-up assessments in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed patients.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Real-time gait biofeedback (RTGBF)Existing treatment, for comparison
The RTGBF regimen delivers biofeedback that cues a personalized target to normalize vertical ground reaction force (vGRF) of each limb.
Treatment: Real-time gait biofeedback
- Sham real-time gait biofeedback (Sham RTGBF)Sham treatment, for comparison
The Sham RTGBF regimen will receive biofeedback that cues their habitual step length determined during the accommodation period on the first session of treadmill walking.
Treatment: Sham real-time gait biofeedback
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Gait Rehabilitation to Treat FastOA
- Plain-language title
- Walking feedback training after knee ligament surgery to look at early knee arthritis signsGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT05848622, who can take part
- Record updated
- 25 June 2026