efficacy of a knee brace in patients after total knee endoprosthesis
- Conditions
- Z96.65
- Registration Number
- DRKS00025166
- Lead Sponsor
- Bauerfeind AG
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 82
patients after total knee endoprosthesis operation (bicondylar/unicondylar)
- knee prosthesis: unilateral or bilateral, first operation or second operation (more than 6 month ago)
- age between 50 and 80 years
- OKS > 8
- patients have to be able to paticipate in this study kognitive and also physical
- patients have to be able to read and understand and sign the informed consent
- pregnancy, lactation or women who are planning a pregnancy during the time of the study
- patients with walking impairment/disability
- severe soft tissue hematoma
-patients who are not able to understand and sign the informed consent (not competent)
- severe and painful hematoma of the knee
- restriction of ROM
- impaired wound healing
- neurological impairment of mobility and gait stability
- impairments that makes it impossible to paticipate in this study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The evaluation of the medical benefit of a knee brace will be estimated by the walking time of patients after their operation. The TWT (total walking time) will be measured by an analysis with a running course and is used to estimate the functional joint stability and reconvaliscence. The TWT will be measured at the beginning of rehabilitation, after 10 days and after 3 weeks.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - oxford knee score<br>- pain reduction (VAS)<br>- reduction of medication use<br>- reduction of oedemas<br>- increase os ROM<br>- increase of knee stability<br>- walking distance<br>- gait parameters<br>- proprioception