Fast-track Rehabilitation After Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Completed

• Conditions: Hip Arthroplasty; Knee Arthroplasty
• Interventions: Other: fast-track rehabilitation; Other: standard care rehabilitation

• Registration Number: NCT03035435
• Lead Sponsor: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Brief Summary

In the last years, a lot of surgical fast track programs (SFTP) have been created and developed. This is due to the steady growing number of interventions on knee and hip; after the surgical treatment, a period of physical rehabilitation (PR) is established to be useful and effective, it usually takes 2-3 weeks. The recovery of strength, range of motion (ROM), independence, the reduction of pain and disability are the aims of PR. With the SFTP and a specific rehabilitation program named fast track rehabilitation (FTR) these times can be reduced. First of all because the length of stay (LOS) it's also caused by organizational problems of the hospitals, not only for the factors related to the patient. It's already been demonstrated that an early mobilization decreases the risk of thromboembolic complications and of pain, furthermore an early rehabilitation increase the patient autonomy and reduces the lost of residual abilities. Moreover a PR program studied for fast track patient will reduce minimum by a 50% the LOS in hospital, decreasing so the sanitary efforts that are always a problem for all the countries. The aim of this study is therefore to propose a fast track rehabilitation program based on an 8 days program for hip and knee arthroplasty being operated with an SFTP.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01
• Primary Completion: 2016-06
• Study Completion: 2016-09
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-25
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-30
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-25
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 58

Inclusion Criteria

• adult people (>18 years), both sex, admitted for elective total knee or hip arthroplasty, with a clinical stability (Hb>9 g/l).

Exclusion Criteria

• the presence of pain measured with NRS (NRS>4)
• rheumatoid arthritis, past surgery
• cancer
• neurological and psychiatric disorders
• dementia with Minimental Test<24
• pregnancy
• participation in the other clinical studies.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
study group	fast-track rehabilitation	fast-track rehabilitation
control group	standard care rehabilitation	standard care rehabilitation

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
International Knee Society Score	Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day
Merle D'Aubigne' scale	Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Barthel Index	Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day