Fascial Manipulation in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis (manifahip)

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: fascial manipulation; Other: standard treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02305108

Prot. gen. 0018810

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will test the efficacy of the treatment of soft tissues for osteoarthritis patients that are waiting for total hip arthroplasty. The fascial manipulation provides a deep pressure of specific points of the muscle fascia. The aims of this treatment are the improve of pain before the surgery and the improve of functional performance after the surgery.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients age 40-80, with primary coxarthrosis waiting for total hip arthroplasty that complain a pain measured by Numeric Rating Scale ≥ 5 and that live in Bologna

Exclusion criteria

• arthroplasty revision or substitution. Patient with cognitive deficiency and severe comorbidity (rheumatic, neurological or cardiovascular pathology)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

fascial manipolation and standard

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment

Other: fascial manipulation

standard treatment

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment