Efficacy of monopolar dielectric transmission diathermy in patient recovery after total knee replacement surgery

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pain after total knee replacement; Function after total knee replacement; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy; Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders; Musculoskeletal - Osteoarthritis

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618000258257
• Lead Sponsor: niversidad de Jaén

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-02-16
• Study Completion: 2020-09-11
• Last Update Posted: 8 March 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 42

Inclusion Criteria

Participants that underwent surgery of total knee replacement in one knee in the last two weeks.
-Age: 60 years or more

Exclusion Criteria

-Cognitive alterations, cardiovascular disease or metabolic diseased uncontrolled at the moment of study.
-Receiving any other physiotherapy treatment at the moment of the study
-Having or being suffering cancer or any tumor.
-Thermal sensitivity alterations
-Leg deformation or osteomuscular disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain with VAS scale[Before first session of treatment, after last session of treatment and two weeks after last session of treatment]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Functionality by Five times sit to stand test, TUG test and WOMAC [Before the first session of treatment, after the last session of treatment and two weeks after the last session of treatment];Quality of life by SF-12 questionnaire[Before the first session of treatment, after the last session of treatment and two weeks after the last session of treatment]