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Shoulder clinical trials

3 of 5 indexed Shoulder trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #3,391 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

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5 US clinical trials · 3 currently recruiting · #3,391 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Shoulder: 5 US clinical trials tracked, 3 recruiting.

Shoulder is the subject of 5 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 3 of them currently open to new participants. The most active sponsor is ATI Holdings, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition shoulder

OPEN 3 | RECR 60% | LATE 0 | EARLY 0 | RANK #3391 | SPON 1

Volume-matched condition peers

Nearest open-share peer: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) (60% recruiting · 5 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Shoulder (this)60%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Shoulder

Shoulder lists 3 open slots (60% of 5 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Shoulder on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Shoulder is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    3 of 5 indexed trials (60%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. One sponsor concentrates Shoulder research.

    ATI Holdings accounts for 1 of 5 trials (20%). 5 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Shoulder trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 60 among the 5 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 3 of those (60%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Shoulder research is mostly interventional.

    4 interventional and 1 observational studies make up this index (80% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase Distribution

Phase data not available

Top Sponsors

ATI Holdings 1 trials
Sacred Heart University 1 trials
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine 1 trials
St. Louis University 1 trials
DePuy Orthopaedics 1 trials

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Shoulder records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Cervical retraction exercise Other
1 trials
Prontosan Wound Gel Device
1 trials
Reverse Total Shoulder Device
1 trials
Rest Other
1 trials
Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment-Spencer's Technique (Modified) Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Shoulder trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Missouri 2 trials
Virginia 1 trials
Utah 1 trials
Tennessee 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Oregon 1 trials
Ohio 1 trials
North Carolina 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

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What to do with this Shoulder page

5 registered trials, 3 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Shoulder condition card totals 5 registered trials; most-linked intervention Cervical retraction exercise; top US site state Missouri. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.