Elastic Band Exercise on the Pain, Kinesiophobia, Functional, and Psychological Status

Aksaray University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exercise

Treatments: Other: Elastic Band Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04981106

2019/08-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aiming to determine the effects of elastic band exercise on kinesiophobia, functional capacity, and depression after the total knee arthroplasty, the present study was designed and carried out as a randomized controlled trial study. The study was carried out between October 2019 and April 2020 in the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department of a training and research hospital.This study, the effects of elastic band exercise program on the pain, kinesiophobia, quality of life, depression, and functional capacity of TKA patients were examined. Elastic band exercise program significantly decreased the pain level, exercise fear, and depression level of patients and positively contributed to the quality of life and functional capacity.

Full description

All the participants were subjected to walking training and a standard postoperative care and exercise protocol until discharged from the hospital. During discharging, all the participants in both groups were provided with explanation and illustration about how to perform the exercises. In order to prevent any problem, the participants in both groups were recommended to start the at-home rehabilitation programs, which incorporate knee movement exercises, to be ready 2 weeks (14 days) after the surgery and they were asked to continue their current exercise programs thus far. The patients in control group were recommended to maintain only an at-home exercise program incorporating knee flexion and extension exercises.

The patients in intervention group were recommended to do, in addition to the at-home exercise program given to the patients in control group, elastic band exercises and researchers showed them how to use the elastic bands by making use of instructions.The participants were asked to do exercise 4 times a day with a minimum of 2 hours interval between the sessions. The participants were instructed to avoid elastic band exercise 1 hour before or after the meals in order to prevent a physical impairment and to adopt a moderately progressive approach in order to prevent lower extremity pain after exercise and to increase the sense of success and confidence.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Elastic Band Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

All the participants were subjected to walking training and a standard postoperative care and exercise protocol until discharged from the hospital. During discharging, all the participants in both groups were provided with explanation and illustration about how to perform the exercises. In order to prevent any problem, the participants in both groups were recommended to start the at-home rehabilitation programs, which incorporate knee movement exercises, to be ready 2 weeks (14 days) after the surgery and they were asked to continue their current exercise programs thus far. The patients in intervention group were recommended to do, in addition to the at-home exercise program given to the patients in control group, elastic band exercises and researchers showed them how to use the elastic bands by making use of instructions.

Treatment:

Other: Elastic Band Exercise

Exercise

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients in control group were recommended to maintain only an at-home exercise program incorporating knee flexion and extension exercises.