Eva-Hip, Evaluation of Rehabilitation After Hip-fracture

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fracture

Treatments: Procedure: physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01379456

REK 2010/3265-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effect on gait and activity of a home based physiotherapy intervention 4-6 months after the fracture. The investigators hypothesis is that exercises performed after the initial rehabilitation, which focuses on specific components of gait control will improve gait and increase level of activity.

Enrollment: 223 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Home dwelling prior to fracture
• age>70yr
• able to walk 10m

Exclusion criteria

• expected life expectancies <3 months
• exercises contraindicated due to medical conditions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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223 participants in 2 patient groups

physiotherapy

Experimental group

Description:

exercises

Treatment:

Procedure: physiotherapy

conventional treatment

No Intervention group

Description:

care as usual