Balance After Knee Arthroplasty

Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Knee Arthroplasty; Postural Balance; Quality of Life

Treatments: Procedure: Knee Arthroplasty

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04681404

PMR_Knee TKA 001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of patients before and after knee arthroplasty regarding balance, function and quality of life. Comparison of total and unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Comparison of the primary outcome parameter and selected secondary outcome parameters to healthy controls.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary gonarthrosis
• planned TKA or UKA
• adequate cognitive and lingual competence
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• TKA or UKA revision
• Surgery after trauma
• Rheumatic disease
• Neurologic disease
• previous arthroplasty of the lower extremity (<9 months)
• cardiovascular disease
• restricted weight bearing of the lower extremity after surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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150 participants in 3 patient groups

Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients intended to undergo surgery for total knee arthroplasty

Treatment:

Procedure: Knee Arthroplasty

Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty (UKA)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients intended to undergo surgery for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

Treatment:

Procedure: Knee Arthroplasty

Healthy Control

No Intervention group