Effect of Inguinal Hernia Repair on Isokinetic Muscle Strength

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

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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