Manual Lymphatic Drainage Before and After Total Knee Replacement, a Single-center Observer-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Moritz Wagner

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; MLD; Manual Lymphatic Drainage; Knee Osteoarthritis; Total Knee Arthroplasty

Treatments: Procedure: Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05119764

1466/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this observer-blinded randomized controlled trial is the evaluation of the influence of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) on the outcome of patients receiving total knee replacement (TKA).

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)

Exclusion criteria

• Venous insufficiency
• BMI > 38
• Vascular disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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112 participants in 3 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard pre- and postoperative physical therapy without manual lymphatic drainage.

Manual lymphatic drainage before and after knee replacement

Experimental group

Description:

Manual lymphatic drainage before and after knee replacement

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual Lymphatic Drainage

Manual lymphatic drainage after knee replacement

Experimental group

Description:

Manual lymphatic drainage after knee replacement

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual Lymphatic Drainage