Medicine aims to help regrowing growth cartilage
Part of Bones, joints & muscles, Injuries & trauma clinical trials.
This trial is testing a treatment intended to affect the growth plate—the cartilage area that helps bones grow—in people who still are growing. It looks at whether changing signals in the growth plate can improve healing or regrowth after surgery removes part of that area as part of routine care.
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Who can take part
- You must be still growing (not fully grown) based on your growth plates
- You must be having a surgery where the growth plate cartilage is removed as a normal part of the procedure OR your surgery removes bone normally
- This study is for people who are skeletally immature (typically children or teens, but some adults can qualify if not fully grown)
- You likely will need tissue taken or addressed during your planned surgery for the study treatment to work
- People who are already skeletally mature are not eligible
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