A Prehab Strengthening Program Prior to ACL Surgery on Lower Limb Structure and Function (ACL-Strong)

Université de Nantes

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: ACL Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: Conventional; Behavioral: Strengthening

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05374382

ACL-Strong

Details and patient eligibility

About

Atrophy and weakness are ubiquitous after a ACL rupture and associated with a worsened long-term recovery of individual capacities, despite surgery and rehabilitation. Preoperative rehabilitation (prehab) is believed to prepare patients for surgery and post-operative rehabilitation. However, prehab programs are highly variable, and do not always aim to develop/maintain neuromuscular parameters.

The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of a lower limb strengthening training program during prehab prior to ACL Surgery on lower limb structure and function.

Full description

Recruited participants will be randomly allocated to one of the three groups of participants constituted in this study.

The two first groups will receive prehabilitation prior to ACL reconstruction (differing in program type). All participants will receive standardized post-surgery rehabilitation (based on international recommandations).

Enrollment: 75 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age : 18 to 55
• first episode of ACL injury
• having a planed ACL reconstruction
• volunteer to participate

Exclusion criteria

• age : <18 or >55
• previous episode of ACL injury/reconstruction
• no ACL reconstruction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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75 participants in 3 patient groups

Strengthening

Experimental group

Description:

Participants received a 9-weeks strengthening-based prehabilitation program before ACL reconstruction, followed by a standardized post-operative rehabilitation program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Strengthening

Conventional

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants received a 9-weeks conventional prehabilitation program (targeting pain knee mobility) before ACL reconstruction, followed by a standardized post-operative rehabilitation program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No prehabilitation program Participants received only a standardized post-operative rehabilitation program