NCT06719388Completed
Exercise Therapy and Jaw-Mobilizing Device for Trismus in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
Exercise Therapy Combined with a Jaw-Mobilizing Device for Improving Maximal Mouth Opening and Trismus in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Dec 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study evaluates the effects of exercise therapy combined with a jaw-mobilizing device on enhancing quality of life in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 34 (actual)
- First submitted
- 28 Nov 2024
- Start date
- 1 Dec 2021
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Taipei Medical University
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06719388
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 34
- From 1 Dec 2021 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2023
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Known temporomandibular joint disorders.
Other
- Postoperative wound healing complications diagnosed by a physician that prevent participation in mouth-opening rehabilitation exercises.
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥ 20 years.
- Ability to communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese, without significant reading, hearing, or writing impairments, and capable of completing questionnaires independently or with researcher assistance.
- Diagnosed with head and neck cancer and scheduled for initial radiotherapy to the head and neck region.
- Clear consciousness without severe cognitive or psychiatric disorders.
- Presence of intact central incisors (#11, #41) on the right side or (#21, #31) on the left side of both the upper and lower jaws.
- Baseline maximal mouth opening (MMO) ≥ 25 mm.
- Willingness to participate in the study with signed informed consent.
Age in the registry: 20 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| tri-Service Gereral Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
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