Specific Protocoled Physiotherapy Treatment for Subjects Surgically Treated for Femoroacetabular Syndrome (FAI)

Cardenal Herrera University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Injuries

Treatments: Procedure: Physiotherapy post-surgical protocol for femoroacetabular impingement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03959254

CEU UCH FAI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physiotherapy treatment protocols described in the bibliography after hip surgery are most of them nonspecific. An experimental study is proposed to determine the effectiveness of a protocolized treatment of physiotherapy in the postoperative treatment of femoroacetabular impingement treated by arthroscopy. This study tries to adapt the non-specific post-surgical physiotherapy treatment protocols of the hip to the characteristics of the femoroacetabular impingement and its arthroscopic surgery.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having suffered hip / groin pain for at least 3 months.
• Be a patient diagnosed with femoroacetabular syndrome by an orthopedic surgeon based on symptoms, clinical signs and diagnostic imaging.
• To have signed the informed consent.
• Have time available to follow a 14-week physiotherapy treatment program.
• Be programmed for hip arthroscopy.
• Be able to speak and understand the Spanish language.
• Be between 18 and 50 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

• To have received physiotherapy treatment in the last three months.
• Having previously received hip surgery.
• Subjects with previous deformities in the femur that severely alter joint mobility such as Perthes disease, gliding of the upper femoral epiphysis or avascular necrosis, acetabular fracture, hip dislocation or fracture of the femoral neck.
• Evidence of preexisting osteoarthritis, defined as Tonnis grade> 2
• Subjects with previous deformities in the pelvis that severely alter joint mobility.
• Any other cardiovascular, psychological and / or cognitive diagnosed pathology that impedes the correct understanding of the study and prevents objective study variables.
• Subjects that are under the effects of anesthetics or muscle relaxants that mask the sensation of the patient before the techniques of the study.
• Professional athletes.
• Subjects in which hip arthroscopy is contraindicated.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Application of a protocol of active exercises for recovery after arthroscopic hip surgery, adapted to the femoroacetabular shock characteristics.

Treatment:

Procedure: Physiotherapy post-surgical protocol for femoroacetabular impingement

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Usual post-surgical general guidelines for hip interventions described by Gocen et al

Treatment:

Procedure: Physiotherapy post-surgical protocol for femoroacetabular impingement