Actively Recruiting
Shock Wave Therapy for Lower Limb Lymphedema
Led by Parc de Salut Mar · Updated on 2025-07-31
30
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
131 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
This is a double-blind randomized clinical trial to compare the effect of shock wave therapy on lower limb lymphedema. There are two arms: A) complex decongestive therapy + extracorporeal shock waves therapy; B) complex decongestive therapy plus placebo extracorporeal shock waves.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Shock Wave Therapy for Lower Limb Lymphedema
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Patients with lower limb lymphedema
- Lymphedema of at least 6 months of evolution
- The lymphedema must affect at least the knee to the foot
- Moderate or severe lymphedema (grades 2 or 3)
- Sign the informed consent
You will not qualify if you...
- Under 18 years of age
- Coagulation disorders (hemophilia, treatment with acenocoumarol, etc.)
- Current or previous deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity
- Pregnancy
- Electronic implantable medical devices as pacemaker implants, medication pumps, etc
- Having received treatment with complex decongestive therapy or shock waves during the last 6 months
- Treatment with corticosteroids or radiotherapy in the area to be treated in the last 6 weeks
- Active oncological disease in the area to be treated
- Active infectious-inflammatory process in the area to be treated
- Cognitive or sensory deficits that prevent collaboration
- Inability to walk independently or inability to attend therapy
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Hospital del Mar
Barcelona, Spain, 08003
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
R
Roser Belmonte, MD, PhD
CONTACT
E
Esther Duarte, MD, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
TRIPLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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