Efficacy of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Exercise Programme in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty

Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments: Other: Rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05999864

TDAPNF

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned to investigate the effectiveness of usual care and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercise program in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty surgery. It is aimed to evaluate pain intensity, disability level, proprioception, kinesiophobia, balance, range of motion and functional status of the patients. The study will be conducted with volunteer patients who are followed up by the Orthopedics and Traumatology outpatient clinic of Fethiye State Hospital and who have undergone total knee arthroplasty surgery. The evaluations will be performed in the Orthopedics and Traumatology outpatient clinic of Fethiye State Hospital. It is aimed to evaluate at least 32 patients for the study. The first evaluation will be performed 6 weeks post-operatively and the second evaluation will be performed 2 months after the treatment.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having undergone unilateral total knee arthroplasty surgery and being 6 weeks postoperative
• Participate in all necessary follow-up assessments
• 60 years of age or older
• Understand simple commands
• Signing the consent form

Exclusion criteria

• A previous history of total knee arthroplasty
• Presence of revision surgery
• Presence of severe osteoarthritis in the contralateral knee
• Severe acute metabolic neuromuscular and cardiovascular diseases
• Extreme obesity (bki>35)
• Presence of malignancy
• Have any other orthopedic or neurological problem that may affect treatment and assessments
• Situations that prevent communication
• Lack of cooperation during the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to the program given to the control group, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercise will be given to the study group as previously described (Gstoettner et al., 2011). These applications will be applied to the patients for 8 weeks, 2 days a week in the clinical environment after the initial evaluation. In addition, both groups will be told that they can contact the researcher when requested.

Treatment:

Other: Rehabilitation

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will receive the usual post-operative care of stretching lower extremity strengthening balance exercises activities of daily living recommendations.

Treatment:

Other: Rehabilitation