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Action Observation in Hip Replacement

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Total Hip Replacement
Interventions
Device: Control group
Device: Experimental group
Device: Conventional physiotherapy
Registration Number
NCT02861638
Lead Sponsor
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
30
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);

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Control groupControl groupVideo of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Experimental groupExperimental groupVideo of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Control groupConventional physiotherapyVideo of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Experimental groupConventional physiotherapyVideo of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 30 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change of Pain intensityBaseline and immediately post-intervention

Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)

Change of Range Of Motion (ROM)Baseline and immediately post-intervention

Active and passive range of motion of hip

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Barthel indexBaseline and immediately post-intervention

Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living

Short Form-36 motorBaseline and immediately post-intervention

The Medical Outcome Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) is a widely used method to evaluate health-related quality of life

Tinetti scaleBaseline and immediately post-intervention

Balance

Lequesne indexBaseline and immediately post-intervention

The Lequesne Index is a 10-question survey given to patients with osteoarthritis of the knee

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