Millimeter Wave Therapy (MWT) for Analgesia After Total Knee Replacement

University Medicine Greifswald

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Phase 2

Conditions

Acute Pain

Pain

Treatments

Device: Generator of electromagnetic millimeter waves

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00233831

III UV 11/03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study was to test whether the exposure to electromagnetic millimeter waves - Millimeter Wave Therapy (MWT) is effective for relief of acute postoperative pain in patients after elective unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA)

Sex

All

Ages

35 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of II or III scheduled for elective TKA
without previous opioid medication
patients 35-80 years old able to use PCA pumps and Visual Analogue Scale for pain intensity measurement
patients who have signed consent form

Exclusion criteria

pregnant or nursing females
recidivist alcoholics
extremely obese patients (body mass index > 35)
inability to operate PCA-pump.
females with the history of unstable angina pectoris (s. Risks for participants)
patients who are unable to understand the consent form
systemic infection
history of psychiatric disease
necessity to change postoperative analgesic scheme for particular patient
severe intercurrent disease during the course of MWT