Action Observation in Knee Replacement

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Total Knee Replacement
• Interventions: Device: Control group; Device: Experimental group; Device: Conventional physiotherapy

• Registration Number: NCT02707419
• Lead Sponsor: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Brief Summary

Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total knee 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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-04
• Primary Completion: 2014-09
• Study Completion: 2014-10
• Study First Submitted: 2016-02-27
• Status Verified: 2016-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-03-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-03-08
• Study First Posted: 2016-03-14
• Last Update Posted: 2016-03-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 41

Inclusion Criteria

• Primary total knee replacement.

Exclusion Criteria

• bilateral knee replacement
• previous total knee replacement.
• pre-existing motor impairment (i.e. hemiparesis, poliomyelitis, lumbar sciatica);

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control group	Conventional physiotherapy	Video of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Experimental group	Conventional physiotherapy	Video of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Control group	Control group	Video of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.
Experimental group	Experimental group	Video of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change of Range Of Motion	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Active and passive range of motion of knee
Change of Pain intensity	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Visual Analogue Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Barthel index	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Barthel index
Short Form-36 motor	Baseline and immediately post-intervention
Tinetti scale	Baseline and immediately post-intervention
Lequesne index	Baseline and immediately post-intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Jorge Hugo Villafañe; 🇮🇹 Piossasco, Turin, Italy