Joint replacement in kids: how does it affect their lives?
NCT ID NCT04294693
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at how children and young adults (ages 10 to 25) who had a joint replacement for reasons other than cancer are doing. Researchers will collect information from medical records and questionnaires about quality of life and joint function. The goal is to understand the long-term outcomes of joint replacement in this young group.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 1,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2019
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2061
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
* Study Population 1. Recent Patients: Subjects that have undergone surgical intervention within the past 2 years from date of study approval \& received a total joint arthroplasty \& follow up care with Dr. Nathan Donaldson or Dr. Steven Thorpe in the Orthopedics Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado . * Study Population 2. New Patients: Subjects that are scheduled to undergo a total joint arthroplasty \&/or receive follow-up care with Dr. Nathan Donaldson or Dr. Steven Thorpe at Children's Hospital Colorado . * Study Population 3. Long-term follow up Patients: Subjects that received a total joint arthroplasty for non-solid tumor malignancies before 05/01/2017 \& no longer follow-up in clinic with Dr. Nathan Donaldson. * Study Population 4. Control group Patients: Subjects with a clinical relationship to Dr. Nathan Donaldson or Dr. Steven Thorpe at Children's Hospital Colorado to act as a control group for statistical matching of the above populations.
- Ages
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10 to 25 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: Populations 1,2,3 * Age between 10 years and 25 years * Undergoing or have undergone total joint arthroplasty at Children's Hospital Colorado for non-solid tumor related reasons * Treated at Children's Hospital Colorado by Dr. Nathan Donaldson, DO or Dr. Steven Thorpe, MD or previously by Travis Heare, MD Exclusion Criteria: Populations 1,2,3 * Subjects and/or parents not capable of completing basic questionnaires in English (HRQL data will not be collected from non-English speaking subjects because we do not have access to versions of these questionnaires that have been validated in languages other than English. These patients may be included at a later date when validated questionnaires are available). * Subjects who underwent hemiarthroplasties, failed rotationplasty to arthroplasty conversions, or joint arthroplasty directly related to a tumor at the location of the joint * Subjects diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), pseudorheumatoid chondrodysplasia, or diastrophic dwarfism Inclusion Criteria: Population 4 * Age between 10 years and 25 years * Treated at Children's Hospital Colorado by Dr. Nathan Donaldson, DO, or Dr. Steven Thorpe, MD or previously by Travis Heare, MD * Symptomatic joint pain treated non-invasively via lifestyle modifications, over the counter or prescription pain medication, nerve blocks or steroid injections, and/or physical therapy * Symptomatic joint pain treated via core decompression surgery at Children's Hospital Colorado by Dr. Nathan Donaldson, DO, or Dr. Steven Thorpe, MD, or previously by Travis Heare, MD Exclusion Criteria: Population 4 * Patients who underwent a joint arthroplasty directly related to a tumor at the location of the joint at Children's Hospital Colorado. Patients undergoing or have undergone total joint arthroplasty at Children's Hospital Colorado for non-solid tumor related reasons * Subjects diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), pseudorheumatoid chondrodysplasia, or diastrophic dwarfism
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Children's Hospital Colorado
RECRUITINGAurora, Colorado, 80045, United States
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