Efficiency of immediate postoperative inpatient physical therapy (PT) following total knee arthroplasty: a randomised controlled trial (RCT)

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Total knee arthroplasty in OA patients; Surgery; Knee arthroplasty

• Registration Number: ISRCTN49658674
• Lead Sponsor: niversity Hospital Maastricht (The Netherlands)

Brief Summary

2006 Results article in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16942627

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Completion: 2004-08-01
• Study Start: 2005-09-07
• Last Update Posted: 21 November 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 43

Inclusion Criteria

Patients who received a primary TKA at the University Hospital Maastricht between January 15 and June 1st, 2004. Subjects were considered eligible for the study if they were scheduled in the ?Joint Care? program and signed an informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients undergoing knee revision surgery were excluded. Also patients over 85 years of age, patients with co-morbidity influencing gait and patient who did not understand or speak Dutch were excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary outcome measures in this study were mobility and function

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary outcome measures were length of stay (LOS) following surgery, pain over the last 24 hours, satisfaction with treatment, satisfaction with the intermediate treatment results, number of PT sessions and Global perceived effect.