Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Sponsor
- University of Rostock
- Enrollment
- 42
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- physical activity (number of steps)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty. No studies exist that have evaluated these two rehabilitation programmes in a specific orthopaedic patient population with a focus on motor performance. We hypothesized that patients participating in outpatient care tend to be physically more active than patients in the rehabilitation clinic, leading to the assumption that outpatient rehabilitation has superior functional outcomes compared to the inpatient standard-of-care therapy.
Investigators
Anett Mau-Moeller
M.A.
University of Rostock
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •patients with knee osteoarthritis and scheduled for primary TKA
- •age: 50-80
Exclusion Criteria
- •BMI \> 40
- •musculoskeletal and neurological disorders that limit physical function
- •any planned further joint surgery within 6 months
- •substantial pain or functional limitation which make the patients unable to perform study procedures
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
physical activity (number of steps)
Time Frame: during the first seven days of rehabilitation and 3 months post surgery (posttest)
over a period of 7 days using activPAL activity recording system
Secondary Outcomes
- long-term Memory representation of the gait(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- timed up and go performance(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- maximal active and passive knee joint range of motion(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- knee pain(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- gait performance(posttest (3 months after surgery))
- stair climbing performance(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- joint position sense(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))
- knee joint swelling(change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery))