Predictability of the Ability to Perform an Emergency Stop in Knee Osteoarthritis and Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Correlation of knee functionality and braking performance
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Several studies exist on patient performance in drive simulators especially around and after surgery. Recommendations concerning the ability to drive preoperatively are based on these studies, which generated their data using drive simulators. However, in all the datasets driving performance remains highly individual. Since a drive simulator is not readily available in normal general practitioner surgeries it would be helpful to have convenient clinical tests to evaluate a patients individual ability to perform an emergency stop. This study aims at evaluating different possibilities how such performance might be predicted. Patients with knee osteoarthritis and patients who have received total knee arthroplasty are tested clinically and their results are compared with the gold standard experiment - a drive simulator.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Diagnostic
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •valid driving license
- •male and female
- •right or left knee Osteoarthritis, Total knee arthroplasty right or left knee
- •capability to walk with or without a walking stick
Exclusion Criteria
- •myocardial infarction/Apoplexia < 6 months
- •Total knee arthroplasty <5 weeks
- •New York Heart Association 3/4
- •lacking drivers' license
- •peripheric sensomotor deficit <3/5 British Medical Research Council
- •new fracture of the lower extremity or spine
- •systemic or metastasised Cancer
- •drug intake with centrally acting substances known to affect reaction time (Opioids, e.g. Tramadol, oxycodone, morphine, Tilidin)
Arms & Interventions
Braking and functionality with right knee osteoarthritis
Cohort testing of driving performance in a drive simulator and correlation with clinical functionality in patients with right knee osteoarthritis
Intervention: Braking and functionality (Other)
Braking and functionality with right knee arthroplasty
Cohort testing of driving performance in a drive simulator and correlation with clinical functionality in patients with right total knee arthroplasty
Intervention: Braking and functionality (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Correlation of knee functionality and braking performance
Time Frame: Osteoarthritis group: at consultation, Total knee arthroplasty group: more than 5 weeks postoperatively, at consultation
Evaluation of degree of correlation of braking performance (total brake response time) and clinical testing of knee functionality in patients with right knee osteoarthritis or total knee arthroplasty. One time point of evaluation for each participant.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported