Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation After TKA

University of Rostock

Status: Completed

Conditions: Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments: Other: inpatient rehabilitation; Other: outpatient rehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02120313

ESAR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty. No studies exist that have evaluated these two rehabilitation programmes in a specific orthopaedic patient population with a focus on motor performance. We hypothesized that patients participating in outpatient care tend to be physically more active than patients in the rehabilitation clinic, leading to the assumption that outpatient rehabilitation has superior functional outcomes compared to the inpatient standard-of-care therapy.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with knee osteoarthritis and scheduled for primary TKA
• age: 50-80

Exclusion criteria

• BMI > 40
• musculoskeletal and neurological disorders that limit physical function
• any planned further joint surgery within 6 months
• substantial pain or functional limitation which make the patients unable to perform study procedures

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

inpatient rehabilitation

Active Comparator group

Description:

After discharge, patients participate in daily physical therapy for 3 weeks in a rehabilitation hospital.

Treatment:

Other: inpatient rehabilitation

outpatient rehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

After discharge, patients participate in daily physical therapy for 3 weeks in an outpatient rehabilitation center.

Treatment:

Other: outpatient rehabilitation