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Postoperatively Treated Patients With Lower Limb Fracture With or Without an Anti-gravity Treadmill

U

University of Leipzig

Status

Completed

Conditions

Muscle Degeneration

Treatments

Other: standardized physiotherapy
Other: anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02790229
FR-0244

Details and patient eligibility

About

The presented study is designed to prove efficacy of the anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®) compared to a standard rehabilitation protocol in patients with tibial plateau or ankle fractures with six weeks of partial weight bearing.

Enrollment

73 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • patients with a postoperative partial weight bearing after tibial plateau or ankle fracture.
  • man and woman of an age between 18 and 65

Exclusion criteria

  • Body weight more than 100kg
  • serious illness or poor general health as judged by physician that may influence the rehabilitation
  • open fractures (>1° according to Gustilo and Anderson)
  • surgical site infection
  • pregnancy
  • neuromuscular disorders or preexisting muscle atrophy.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

73 participants in 2 patient groups

anti-gravity treadmill arm
Experimental group
Description:
Treatment with anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®)
Treatment:
Other: anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®)
control arm
Other group
Description:
Treatment with standardized physiotherapy
Treatment:
Other: standardized physiotherapy

Trial contacts and locations

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