COmmunity-based Rehabilitation after Knee Arthroplasty (CORKA): a prospective individually randomised two-arm randomised controlled trial

niversity of Oxford0 sites621 target enrollmentFebruary 12, 2015

Overview

2016 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27737685 protocol 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33250068/ results (added 01/12/2020) 2021 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34452970/ (added 01/09/2021)

Registry

who.int

Start Date

February 12, 2015

End Date

December 31, 2019

Last Updated

4 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•1\. Participant is willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study
•2\. Male or female, aged 55 years or above
•3\. Primary unilateral KR as a scheduled procedure
•4\. Deemed by study screening tool developed to be at risk of poor outcome
•5\. Happy to allow physiotherapy teams to attend their home to deliver the intensive rehabilitation programme if randomised to the intervention arm

•1\. Any absolute contraindications to exercise
•2\. Severe cardiovascular or pulmonary disease (New York Heart Association III\-IV)
•3\. Severe dementia, assessed using the hospital dementia screening tool
•4\. Rheumatoid arthritis
•5\. Further lower limb arthroplasty surgery planned within 12 months