on-invasive method for the treatment of internal nasal valve stenosis in endurance athletes
- Conditions
- Internal nasal valve stenosis
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031943
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für HNO und Kopf- und Halschirurgie St. Elisabeth Hospital Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 25
1. The study participant understands the study procedures and agrees to participate by signing the consent form.
2. The study participant is male or female, at least 18 years of age.
3. The study participant must be healthy and free of clinically significant diseases that interfere with the study or procedures or affect its safety.
4. The study participants engage in endurance sports on a regular basis. This is defined by performing an endurance sport discipline, such as jogging, cycling, swimming, rowing, cross-country skiing, or cross-trainer for at least 30 minutes and at least 2 times a week consistently for the past 3 months.
5. The study participants complain of nasal airway obstruction when engaging in endurance sports.
6. The study participants suffer from functionally relevant nasal valve stenosis.
1. Study participants are excluded
a) With a cardiac pacemaker.
b) with a blood coagulation disorder.
c) with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
d) with bronchial asthma.
e) with a cardio-vascular disease.
f) with joint arthrosis.
g) with immunosuppression after transplantation or HIV infection.
h) with an oncological disease.
i) with consumption of performance-enhancing drugs.
j) with drug, alcohol and nicotine consumption.
k) with endoscopically detectable polyposis, transverse septum and sinusitic complaints.
l) without improvement of nasal breathing in the Cottle test.
m) without improvement of nasal breathing in the Q-Tips test.
2. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method