Football Players Health Study In Person Assessments Study
CompletedNCT03866564
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The aim of the Football Players Health Study (FPHS) is to advance the understanding of the complex and inter-related pathways that can develop into player related illness and disability. Former National Football League players will be given the opportunity to undergo 2\&1/2 days of rigorous assessment in the areas of Cardiac Dysfunction, Neurocognitive Disease, Chronic Pain, and Sleep Apnea to attempt to define the pathology among former professional athletes.
Study details
- Official title
- The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University In Person Assessment Study
- Conditions
- Cardiac Dysfunction
- Neurocognitive Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Sleep Apnea
- Interventions
- Diagnostic test: Echocardiography
- Diagnostic test: Neuropsychological Testing
- Diagnostic test: Quantitative Sensory Testing
- Diagnostic test: Nocturnal Polysomnography
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Collaborators
- Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Start date
- 2019-04-22
- Primary completion
- 2022-11-30
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 24 Years to 55 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 24-55 at the time of first Health and Wellness Questionnaire (Q1) completion. * Former professional football player who played between 1960 to present. * Prior completed the first Health and Wellness Questionnaire (Q1) * "Healthy" subjects: ability to give informed consent and comply with study procedures. * "Afflicted" participants: must meet criteria for at least one of the following subjective afflictions based on Q1 responses: 1) Cardiovascular Dysfunction, 2) Neurocognitive Disease, 3) Chronic Pain, and/or 4) Sleep Apnea Exclusion Criteria: * Prior metallic device implants such as cardiac pacemakers/defibrillators or perfusion pumps that cannot be removed. * Ferromagnetic implants or objects that cannot be removed such as aneurysm clips, surgical clips, prostheses, artificial hearts, valves with steel parts, metal fragments, shrapnel, tattoos near the eye, or steel implants or jewelry * Body weight \>390 lbs at screening * Inability to complete the telephone screener * Low T-MoCA score (\<17) and absence of an available study partner if required following MD review. * Significant behavioral or functional disability due to cognitive impairment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03866564