Ergometer Cycling After Replacement of the Hip or Knee Joint

Verein zur Förderung der Rehabilitationsforschung in Schleswig-Holstein

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: No ergometer cycling; Behavioral: Ergometer Cycling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00951990

vffr-37

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite the widespread use of hip and knee replacement surgery, there is a considerable lack of consensus regarding postoperative treatment and rehabilitation, mostly because of the lack of well-designed studies testing the efficacy and effectiveness of such practices.

In particular there are no recommendations regarding the use of ergometer cycling after hip or knee replacement surgery.

Therefore the investigators initiated a multicenter controlled clinical trial evaluating the effect of ergometer cycling versus no ergometer cycling after hip or knee replacement surgery.

Enrollment: 457 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient who is about to receive unilateral hip or knee replacement surgery on an elective basis of diagnosis of osteoarthritis or femoral head necrosis

Exclusion criteria

• A history of septic arthritis
• Hip fracture
• Intraoperative complications
• History of implant surgery on the joint to be operated on
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Amputations
• Inability of complete the questionnaires because of cognitive or language difficulties

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)