Clinical trials: Contractions
Acute Muscle Damage Following Resistance Exercise
Acute Muscle Damage After Eccentric Quasi-Isometric Exercise of the Elbow Flexors
This study compared the acute muscle damage responses of the elbow flexor muscles following two types of resistance exercise: eccentric quasi-isometric (EQI) exercise and traditional eccentric (ECC) exercise.
- Trial name
- NCT07431879
- Testing
- Eccentric Quasi-Isometric Exercise, Traditional Eccentric Exercise
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese Culture University
In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) Treatment
Effect of Oxytocin and Vasopressin Antagonists on Uterine Contractions
The main purpose of this clinical research trial was to evaluate the effects of barusiban and atosiban compared to placebo on luteal phase uterine contractions in oocyte donors supplemented with progesterone.
- Trial name
- OVANCON (NCT00587327)
- Testing
- Barusiban, Atosiban
- Where
- 5 sites in Belgium, Czechia and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 125 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Force Control in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Maximal muscle strength is one of the most commonly assessed neuromuscular parameters in people with COPD due to its accessibility and relevance for prescribing an appropriate workload for resistance training.
- Trial name
- NEUROTIGUE F (NCT06871670)
- Testing
- Submaximal isometric contractions of knee extensors
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer
Obstetric Labor Complications
The Proactive Support of Labor Study
The duration of labor is decisive for maternal and fetal health. Poor progression often results in tired mothers, bad experience, delivery complications and a demand for cesarean section in next pregnancy.
- Trial name
- PAF (NCT03056313)
- Testing
- Proactive support of labor, support of labor as usual
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 347 people
- Sponsor
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Urinary Bladder, Overactive
Brain Areas Involved in Bladder Filling and Contraction
Overactive Bladder syndrome (OAB) is a medical condition with symptoms of urgency, with or without incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia, with no proven infection or obvious pathology 1.
- Trial name
- NCT02477241
- Testing
- Uroflowmetry, fMRI
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 48 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia and Aging
Objective: Evaluate the muscular strength in the ageing process and identify the changes between the abdominal muscles, upper and louver edges.
- Trial name
- NCT00907010
- Volunteers
- 48 people
- Sponsor
- Universidade de Franca
Infertility
Barusiban Subcutaneously for Reducing Implantation Failure Due to Uterine Contractions
This trial investigates the effects of FE 200440 compared to placebo on implantation rate in women undergoing IVF/ICSI treatment
- Trial name
- BASIC (NCT01723982)
- Testing
- Barusiban (FE 200440)
- Where
- 14 sites in Australia, Belgium and 4 more
- Volunteers
- 256 people
- Sponsor
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Swallowing Contraction Strength
Investigating the Correlations Between Dysphagia Symptoms and Swallowing Muscle Groups by HRPM-I
Investigating the correlation between the dysphagia symptoms and swallowing muscle groups by high resolution pharyngeal manometry with impedance
- Trial name
- NCT06006195
- Testing
- patients with dysphagia symptoms, patients without dysphagia symptoms
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Healthy
A System for Lengthening Contraction Training of Muscle
Evaluation of a new exercise machine designed to improve strength and speed of movement in the leg muscles. Investigators are trying to learn whether a new training method results in greater strength improvements as compared to a…
- Trial name
- LCT (NCT00575107)
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Term Labour
Accuracy and Reliability of Novii: Fetal Heart Rate (FHR), Maternal Heart Rate (MHR) and Uterine Contraction (UA) Compared With Doppler, Scalp Fetal Scalp Electrode (FSE), Tocodynamometer (TOCO) and Intra Uterine Pressure Catheter (IUPC)
Accuracy and Reliability of the Novii device (fetal heart rate, maternal heart rate and uterine activity) compared with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved techniques
- Trial name
- NCT03409146
- Testing
- Monica Novii Wireless Patch System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- GE Healthcare
Keratinized Mucosa
Keratinized Tissue Gain Following Apically Positioned Flap with and Without Free Gingival Graft Strip
In non-implant edentulous patients reduction of height and width of residual alveolar ridge and reduced attached KT compromise the denture-bearing area unambiguously leading to decrease in full denture stability and retention.
- Trial name
- FGGS (NCT06694623)
- Testing
- Apically positioned flap, Apically positioned flap with FGG strip
- Where
- Serbia
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Adam Malesevic
Vibration; Exposure, Muscle Physiology
Feature of Reflex Pathway Activated by WBV and Voluntary Contraction
Whole-body vibration (WBV) has beneficial neuromuscular effects on muscle strength increase. Supraspinal, spinal, and peripheral mechanisms have been proposed to explain these beneficial effects.
- Trial name
- NCT05221541
- Testing
- vibration
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
Chronic COVID-19 Syndrome
Efficacy of Baduanjin Exercise in COVID-19 Contraction Patients With Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue
Post-COVID recovery is associated with reduced functional fitness/capacity, low quality of life, and physical disabilities in those who survived after contracting the disease.
- Trial name
- NCT06829940
- Testing
- Baduanjin exercise training (BET)
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
Pain, Back, Pain, Neck
Preliminary Muscle Contraction in the Rehabilitation and Prevention of Degenerative Pain in the Locomotor System
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of muscle preliminary contraction in the rehabilitation and prevention of degenerative pain in the spine, hip, knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow, and ankle joints, as well as after hip and…
- Conditions
- Pain, Back, Pain, Neck, Pain, Hip Burning, Pain, Shoulder
- Trial name
- PMQRPDP (NCT06415825)
- Testing
- Standard advice and Preliminary muscle contraction, Standard advice
- Volunteers
- 216 people
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Sofia
Preterm Labor
Nanovectors to Prevent Placental Passage of Tocolytic Agents
The purpose of the study is to find out whether indomethacin encapsulated within a nanovector can stop contractions in pregnant human uterine tissue. Preterm delivery is a major contributor to newborn deaths.
- Trial name
- NCT02199756
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Healthy
Personalised Modeling and Simulation Procedures for the Differential Diagnosis of Dynapenia: a Study on Healthy Volunteers
The ForceLoss study aims to develop personalised modeling and simulation procedures to enable the differential diagnosis for the loss of muscle force, namely dynapenia.
- Trial name
- NCT05091502
- Testing
- Personalised musculoskeletal modeling
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Speckle Tracking, Diaphragm
End-Expiratory Diaphragmatic Residual Contraction Index for Identifying Intrinsic PEEP and Assisting PEEP Titration: A Prospective Physiological Study
This study proposes the End-expiratory Diaphragmatic Residual Contraction (EDRC) index to quantify residual diaphragmatic activity at end-expiration during Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV) mode.
- Trial name
- NCT07697703
- Testing
- Short-term PEEP Step Trial and EDRC Ultrasound Assessment
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital
Preterm Birth
Pilot Study to Evaluate a Prototype Electronic Uterine Inhibitor to Prevent Preterm Contractions
Use an electrical-inhibition (EI)/uterine pacemaker device similar to an electrical heart pacemaker to deliver a weak electrical current to the human uterus that will rapidly and safely inhibit the unwanted premature uterine…
- Trial name
- NCT00212446
- Testing
- Electrical Intervention (EI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Pregnancy
Multi-Reader Multi-Case Study to Identify Uterine Contractions Recorded From Laboring and Nonlaboring Patients by Practicing Clinicians
This multi-reader multi-case study was designed to evaluate the performance of SureCALL® Labor Monitor® (SureCALL®) directly to the standard Tocodynamometer device (TOCO).
- Trial name
- NCT01730963
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Reproductive Research Technologies, LP
C.Delivery; Surgery (Previous), Gynecological
Incision Pain and Uterine Contraction Pain After Cesarean Section
This study aims to compare the pain degree between primary cesarean section and repeated cesarean section, and investigate the role of flurbiprofen axetil in postoperative analgesia, so as to provide reference for clinical…
- Trial name
- NCT02595333
- Testing
- Group SF1, Group S1, Group SF2
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fudan University