Early MOtion Total Ankle Artroplasty (EMOTAA)

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Ankle Arthropathy

Cartilage Disease

Ankle Osteoarthritis

Ankle - Recurrent Dislocation

Treatments

Procedure: early mobilizzation of the ankle

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06525545

EMOTAA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate the clinical and radiographic results of patients undergoing total ankle arthroplasty and treated in the post-operative period in a randomized manner with early mobilization of the ankle joint or with cast immobilization for 3 weeks

Enrollment

72 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adult patients (aged between 18 and 80).
Male or female patients;
Signature of the informed consent for participation in the study;
Patients prepared and motivated to comply with the scheduled follow-up visits and the completion of the study questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

main diagnosis other than osteoarthritis, history of ankle infection
need to carry out surgical interventions associated with total prosthesis ankle (e.g., calcaneal osteotomy, knee lowering osteotomy).

first metatarsal bone, supramalleolar osteotomy, etc.)

intraoperative complications (for example a malleolar fracture) which require a different post-operative protocol
peripheral vascular disease
marked osteoporosis of the ankle and foot
osteonecrosis of the talus
neurological disorders affecting the lower limb inability to understand study information or respond to questionnaires due to cognitive or linguistic deficits
patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding