Treatment of the Osgood Schlatter

NCT ID: NCT02824172

Last Updated: 2025-12-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 72 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2016-12-31

Brief Summary

The disease Osgood-Schlatter is most commonly found in sports teenager growing up apophysose accounting for 28.4% of osteochondrosis by Breck. It relates to 62% of osteochondrosis knee and affects adolescent girls between 10 and 12 and boys between 12 and 15 It is usually considered a benign pathology that cures in the majority of cases. However, in 5-10% of cases there is persistent residual pain in adulthood.

The classic complication is the avulsion fracture of the tibial tuberosity in adolescents who continued his sports without restriction.

The possible consequences are numerous including the presence of a free bone fragment at the insertion of the tendon originally described by Osgood the establishment of a genu recurvatum, a high kneecap or patella alta and an enlarged tibial tuberosity (ATT) annoying sport.

The main two treatments are complete rest from sport activity or cast immobilization.

The main objective is to compare these two technics according to the proportion of full sporting recovering at 12 months

Conditions

Osgood Schlatter Disease

Keywords

Cast immobilization; Complete rest; Osgood Schlatter

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Cast immobilization

36 patients in the experimental cast immobilization

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

cast immobilization group

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients in this group will have their knee locked with a resin going from the ankle to the top of the thigh for 4 weeks, followed by 4 weeks without cast but with rehabilitation through physiotherapy.

complete sport rest

36 patients in the complete sport rest group

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

complete sport rest.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients included in this group will follow the current standard procedure for this disease that is to say complete sport rest during 8 weeks including rehabilitation through physiotherapy, following the exact same technic as the experimental group .

Interventions

cast immobilization group

Patients in this group will have their knee locked with a resin going from the ankle to the top of the thigh for 4 weeks, followed by 4 weeks without cast but with rehabilitation through physiotherapy.

Intervention Type: OTHER

complete sport rest.

Patients included in this group will follow the current standard procedure for this disease that is to say complete sport rest during 8 weeks including rehabilitation through physiotherapy, following the exact same technic as the experimental group .

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Boys and girls
• From 9 to 15 years old
• Coming to consult in the Sports' medicine ward
• Patients diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter disease defined by a swelling of the anterior tibial tuberosity (ATT) , pain on palpation of the ATT , pain with passive knee flexion , pain thwarted knee extension and soft rays in profile knee radiography according to the classification of Woolfrey and Chandler (types A -C
• Unilateral or bilateral
• Previously treated or not
• Agreed to participate
• Agreement of the parents to participate
• Affiliation to national security

Exclusion Criteria

• Contraindication to the set-up of vascular access in femoral position (femoral Scarpa wound, aortic dissection)
• Local infection
• Hypothermia <32°C
• Need for implementation of arterial catheter only
• Need for implementation of venous catheter only

• Minimum Eligible Age: 9 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Jean-Francois LUCCIANI, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Department of Sport's medicine, Hospital Edouard Herriot- Hospices Civils de Lyon

Locations

Department of Sport's medicine, Hospital Edouard Herriot- Hospices Civils de Lyon, 5 Place d'Arsonval

Lyon, , France

Countries

France

References

Duperron L., Haquin A., Berthiller J., Chotel F., Pialat J-B., Luciani J-F. Étude d'une cohorte de 30 patients immobilisés avec une résine cruro-malléolaire pour une maladie d'Osgood-Schlatter. Science & Sports. 2016;31(6):323-335. doi:10.1016/j.scispo.2016.04.014.

Reference Type: RESULT

Other Identifiers

69HCL16_0404

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id