Effects of Action Observation Therapy in Patients Recovering From Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Prospective Clinical Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 30
- Primary Endpoint
- Change of Pain intensity
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total hip arthroplasty. Traditionally rehabilitative programs aim to increase range of motion, to strengthen quadriceps, to restore normal gait, and to recover independence in activities of daily living. In the last decade action observation treatment, in addition to conventional physiotherapy has been proposed as a treatment method in rehabilitative medicine. There is growing evidence of the applicability of action observation training in rehabilitative medicine, indeed it has been applied in the rehabilitation of stroke of Parkinson disease of cerebral palsy and of aphasia.
Nevertheless those are small studies and one of them included a mixed population of hip and knee arthroplasty.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •Primary total hip replacement.
Exclusion Criteria
- •bilateral hip replacement
- •previous total hip replacement.
- •pre-existing motor impairment (i.e. hemiparesis, poliomyelitis, lumbar sciatica);
Arms & Interventions
Experimental group
Video of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Intervention: Experimental group (Device)
Experimental group
Video of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Intervention: Conventional physiotherapy (Device)
Control group
Video of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Intervention: Control group (Device)
Control group
Video of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Intervention: Conventional physiotherapy (Device)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change of Pain intensity
Time Frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
Change of Range Of Motion (ROM)
Time Frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention
Active and passive range of motion of hip
Secondary Outcomes
- Barthel index(Baseline and immediately post-intervention)
- Short Form-36 motor(Baseline and immediately post-intervention)
- Tinetti scale(Baseline and immediately post-intervention)
- Lequesne index(Baseline and immediately post-intervention)
Investigators
Jorge Hugo Villafañe, PhD
Researcher
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus