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Effect of Inguinal Hernia Repair on Isokinetic Muscle Strength

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Konya Meram State Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Inguinal Hernia

Treatments

Procedure: lichtenstein
Procedure: Kugel

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02871583
izokinetic01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present prospective controlled study is to compare the trunk muscle strength, quality of life and neuropathic pain component after Lichtenstein and Kugel procedures.

Full description

In this study patients underwent inguinal hernia repair will be evaluated for the effect of the surgical procedure on abdominal muscle strength.

Enrollment

100 patients

Sex

Male

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Signed written informed consent
  • Male gender (for minimizing the certain effect of gender to muscle strength)
  • Patients aged 18-65 years' old
  • Having no previous surgery
  • Patients within six months to postoperative first year
  • Ability to speak, read, and write Turkish

Exclusion criteria

  • Infections or tumors of the spine
  • Systemic bone or joint disorders (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis)
  • Unstable cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases
  • Polyneuropathies and musculoskeletal system diseases
  • Presence of a diagnosed severe psychiatric disorder
  • Presence of severe pain
  • Regular exercise habit
  • Recurrent operation for a hernia
  • Presence bilateral inguinal hernia on concurrent femoral hernia
  • If the calculated Body mass index is lower than 20kg/cm2 or over than 35kg/cm2

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

100 participants in 3 patient groups

lichtenstein
Active Comparator group
Description:
lichtenstein procedure
Treatment:
Procedure: lichtenstein
Kugel
Active Comparator group
Description:
Kugel procedure
Treatment:
Procedure: Kugel
control
No Intervention group
Description:
healthy volunteers

Trial contacts and locations

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