Action Observation in Knee Replacement

Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Total Knee Replacement

Treatments: Device: Control group; Device: Conventional physiotherapy; Device: Experimental group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02707419

Dongnocchi

Details and patient eligibility

About

Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total knee arthroplasty. Traditionally rehabilitative programs aim to increase range of motion, to strengthen quadriceps, to restore normal gait, and to recover independence in activities of daily living. In the last decade action observation treatment, in addition to conventional physiotherapy has been proposed as a treatment method in rehabilitative medicine. There is growing evidence of the applicability of action observation training in rehabilitative medicine, indeed it has been applied in the rehabilitation of stroke of Parkinson disease of cerebral palsy and of aphasia.

Nevertheless those are small studies and one of them included a mixed population of hip and knee arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary total knee replacement.

Exclusion criteria

• bilateral knee replacement
• previous total knee replacement.
• pre-existing motor impairment (i.e. hemiparesis, poliomyelitis, lumbar sciatica);

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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41 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Video of the exercises and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Experimental group

Device: Conventional physiotherapy

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Video of nature scenes and conventional physiotherapy. 45 minutes twice a day, 5 days a week for 2 weeks.

Treatment:

Device: Conventional physiotherapy

Device: Control group