Lengthening a shoulder tendon during reverse shoulder replacement to look at front shoulder pain
Tests lengthening the conjoint tendon during reverse shoulder replacement in people with shoulder osteoarthritis.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Nickolas Garbis
- Where
- Maywood, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Prophylactic Conjoint Tendon Lengthening During Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 110 people, planned
- Started
- Mar 2025
- Expected to end
- Mar 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Prophylactic Conjoint Tendon Lengthening
- Standard Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
- Record updated
- 7 March 2025
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 adults having a first reverse shoulder replacement. It tests whether lengthening the conjoint tendon during surgery reduces pain in the front of the shoulder at one year.
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- Shoulder osteoarthritis treated with a first (primary) reverse total shoulder replacement. Surgery must take place at Loyola University Medical Center, Loyola Ambulatory Surgery Center (Maywood, IL) or Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.
- Earlier treatment
- People who had a coracoid transfer procedure before cannot join. People having a repeat surgery to replace an earlier shoulder replacement cannot join.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Younger than 18 years
- Prior coracoid transfer procedure
- Revision surgery of an earlier shoulder replacement
- Current pregnancy (a urine pregnancy test is done before surgery)
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients who are at least 18 years old undergoing primary reverse total shoulder arthroplasty
- Operations that occur at Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, IL), Loyola Ambulatory Surgery Center (Maywood, IL), or Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
Who cannot take part
- Patients who had prior coracoid transfer procedure
- Patients who are undergoing revision surgery from a prior arthroplasty
- Current pregnancy As per standard protocol with all surgeries, a urine pregnancy test is performed prior to surgery. If positive, the surgery will be cancelled and the patient will be excluded from the research study
- Patients younger than 18 years old
Where in United States
- Loyola Outpatient CenterMaywood, United StatesContact: Nickolas G Garbis, MDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Some patients may experience persistent pain in the front of their shoulder after reverse shoulder replacement. One of the possible reasons for this is that the surgery causes a change in the alignment of the shoulder joint, which may cause increased tension and compression on one of the biceps tendon called the conjoint tendon. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether conjoint tendon lengthening, a surgical procedure that involves cutting and lengthening the conjoint tendon in order to reduce tension and compression, is able to prevent or reduce the risk of anterior shoulder pain at one year after surgery.
The 2 groups in the trial
- ControlExisting treatment, for comparison
Standard reverse shoulder arthroplasty
Treatment: Standard Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
- TreatmentTreatment being tested
Prophylactic conjoint tendon lengthening in addition to reverse shoulder arthroplasty
Treatment: Prophylactic Conjoint Tendon Lengthening
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
- Prophylactic Conjoint Tendon Lengthening During Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty: is There a Difference in Anterior Shoulder Pain At One Year After Surgery?
- Plain-language title
- Lengthening a shoulder tendon during reverse shoulder replacement to look at front shoulder painGenerated 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.
- Record updated
- 7 March 2025