Home PT vs FORCE PT

Rothman Institute Orthopaedics

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: Home PT via paper manual; Other: outpatient PT; Other: Home PT via web-based platform

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02911389

16Chen01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if unsupervised, home rehabilitation delivered by a web-based platform or paper manual is a safe and effective alternative to outpatient physical therapy after total knee replacement.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Any patient undergoing unilateral, primary TKA

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients without access to the Internet
2. Patients without access to outpatient PT
3. Revision or conversion TKA
4. Patients discharged to a rehabilitation unit or other form of respite care such as a skilled nursing facility, acute rehabilitation center, convalescent home, long-term care facility or nursing home.

Trial design

0 participants in 3 patient groups

Home PT via web-based platform

Active Comparator group

Description:

unsupervised, home rehabilitation delivered by a web-based platform

Treatment:

Other: Home PT via web-based platform

Home PT via paper manual

Active Comparator group

Description:

unsupervised, home rehabilitation delivered by a paper manual

Treatment:

Other: Home PT via paper manual

outpatient PT

Active Comparator group

Description:

outpatient physical therapy

Treatment:

Other: outpatient PT