NCT05521126

Micro-Doppler Radar: A Gold Standard Comparison

The Use of Micro-Doppler Radar to Identify Service Members at Risk for Musculoskeletal Injury: A Gold Standard Comparison

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 181 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if the study team can use micro-Doppler signal (MDS) technology to determine if someone has had an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The investigators will do this by comparing the movement data from a group of people who have had the surgery with a group who has not had the surgery to see if the micro-Doppler radar technology can accurately and predictably tell the difference.

Detailed description

The objective of this research is to validate that radar MDS can accurately and predictably differentiate individuals at high-risk for MSKI from those who are low risk. The investigators hypothesize that MDS will identify individuals at a high-risk for MSKI more accurately than the gold-standard MC technologies. To test this hypothesis, the investigators propose a case control study that will compare adults who have undergone ACL reconstruction to a control group of healthy adults that has not. Patients who have undergone ACL reconstruction have a 6-24% chance of either re-tearing their ACL or having a subsequent knee surgery on either side within two years of successful completion of surgery and post-surgical rehabilitation. Despite being released for full activities, little is known about what makes this group at high-risk for re-tear. As such, the investigators will use this patient population as a model for identifying an at-risk population for musculoskeletal injury (MSKI). The researchers will simultaneously collect radar micro-Doppler signals and biomechanical motion capture (MC) data in a state-of-the-art human movement lab. Participants will be asked to perform a series of functional activities that will be captured by both the MDS radar and MC systems. The data sets will then be analyzed independently.

Conditions

• Musculoskeletal Injury
• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-21
• Primary completion: 2025-09-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2022-08-30
• Last updated: 2025-09-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States