Kinesio® Tex Taping for Post Total Knee Replacement Patients

I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Device: Kinesio Tex

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03681106

Kinesiotaping

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to better understand the effect of Kinesio Taping applied using the Neurotaping technique on patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty surgery. Patients will be randomized in two groups: in the first group patients will follow a protocol of usual rehabilitation, while the second group will do the same but add the Kinesio Taping application. Main outcome will be the effect on edema, secondary outcome the effect on functionality after 13 days post surgery.

Enrollment

71 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 85 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Program of total knee replacement;
Signing and accepting informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

pre-operative Barthel Index score < 70;
program of revision of total knee replacement;
grade III-IV heart failure;
grade III-IV kidney failure;
hypersensitive skin or intolerance to taping;
Active cutaneous infection or open skin lesion on the sites of taping positioning;
Body Mass Index > 34,9;
Pregnant women;
Not accepting informed consent;
Impossibility to follow usual rehabilitation treatment.