Efficacy of Exercise Program for Facedown Posture-related Pain After Retinal Surgery

Samsung Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Retinal Detachment; Macular Holes

Treatments: Behavioral: A structured exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04535622

2019-03-157

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a structured exercise program on musculoskeletal pain of patients in face-down posture after retinal surgery.

Full description

After being informed about the study, patients who are planning to get vitrectomy for macular hole or retinal detachment are going to be randomly assigned into two groups; exercise group and control group. All patients are going be admitted to the hospital prior to the surgery. After the surgery is done, the patients are going to maintain a face-down position in the ward until postoperative day 3. After returning to the ward after surgery and completed the pain scoring forms, exercise training is going to be conducted for patients assigned to the exercise group by a physical therapist. Three times of daily self-exercise sessions are going to be performed according to the training provided to the patients. Pain score will be measured on the first, second and the third postoperative days. Patients will be discharged on the third postoperative days.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who are getting vitrectomy for macular hole or retinal detachment and planning to maintain face-down posture.

Exclusion criteria

• Pre-existing musculoskeletal disorder.
• low visiual acuity in the opposite eye (best-corrected visual acuity less than 20/200 by snellen chart) making patients hard to get the exercise training.
• Patients with posture prescriptions other than the prone position

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

A structured exercise instruction for facedown posture-related pain will be provided to the patients, and patients will go through three times of self-exercise sessions everyday according to the training provided.

Treatment:

Behavioral: A structured exercise

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients are going to maintain face-down posture but no specific exercise instruction will be provided.