Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Continuity With Outpatient Physiotherapy After Total Hip Replacement.

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Telerehabilitation; Physiotherapy; Total Hip Replacement

Treatments: Other: Telerehabilitation; Other: Traditional rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06238960

TELERIABPTA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Total arthroplasty (THA) is the treatment of choice for severe osteoarthritis of the hip joint. Following this type of intervention, a multidisciplinary rehabilitation approach allows you to reduce pain and improve the ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADL), but it is not clear what the optimal rehabilitation program is. Recently, the use of telerehabilitation has increased over the years. Specifically, in treatment of patients following THA surgery, telerehabilitation is able to give similar results to the treatment performed in person terms of pain and function. The aim of this study is to verify whether telerehabilitation associated with In-person treatment is comparable in terms of pain, recovery functionality and patient participation and satisfaction, compared to those provided by rehabilitation alone in the presence of patients undergoing THA surgery.

Enrollment: 104 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having undergone total hip replacement surgery (THA)
• Start outpatient treatment within 7 days of discharge from the Orthopedic Department
• Age between 50 and 80 years.
• Continuation of rehabilitation treatments at the IOR Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation service in Argenta.
• The subjects or any caregivers must be able to use an electronic device (PC, tablet, smartphone).

Exclusion criteria

• patients undergoing revision of previous prosthesis surgery
• difficulty understanding the Italian language/language barrier
• unavailability stable wi-fi connection by the patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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104 participants in 2 patient groups

Telerehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

the patients who will be randomized and subjected to the experimental treatment will undergo a physiotherapy treatment with a biweekly frequency which will be started at the same times as the standard group. After the sixth session, the process will continue through telerehabilitation until the end of outpatient treatment.

Treatment:

Other: Telerehabilitation

traditional physiotherapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients who will be randomized and subjected to standard treatment (usual care at our clinic) will undergo physiotherapy treatment on a bi-weekly basis in person.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional rehabilitation