Comparison of Ambulatory and Functional Improvement by Morning Walk

Ulsan University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; Robotics

Treatments: Device: Morning walk; Other: no Morning walk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03183856

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the clinical efficacy and feasability of gait rehabilitation robot through approving functional improvement by an end-effector typed gait robot in patients underwent total knee arthroplasty.

Full description

pre-interventional evaluation; within 1 day of initiation of the intervention; 5 days after initiation of the intervention; 10 days after intervention after initiation of the intervention; 42 days after intervention start

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients underwent Unilateral or both Total Knee Arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• brain disease, spinal cord injury, peripheral neuropathy, myopathy
• Inability to ambulate fully due to muscukoskeletal disorders
• MMSE<23
• history of arthroplasty surgery on either of legs
• Cardiac pacemaker
• Refusal of participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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9 participants in 2 patient groups

Morning walk

Experimental group

Description:

200 steps of gait rehabilitation using an end-effector typed gait robot with 5 minute break, 3 times a day for 10 weekdays: the end-effector type gait robot (Morning Walk®, Hyundai Heavy Industry, Republic of Korea)

Treatment:

Device: Morning walk

No Morning walk

Active Comparator group

Description:

200 steps by themselves or with a help of a walker on a even floor at a comfortable pace with 5 minute break, three times a day for 10 weekdays

Treatment:

Other: no Morning walk