Telerehabilitation After Total Knee Arthroplasty

University of Rzeszow

Status: Completed

Conditions: Telerehabilitation; Physiotherapy; Total Knee Arthoplasty

Treatments: Other: telerehabilitation; Procedure: standard physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04923373

2/11/2006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to assess the function, pain intensity and walking distance in patients prior to and after total knee arthroplasty, who received therapy either in a clinic under direct supervision of a physical therapist and patients who received telerehabilitation.

Full description

The study population consisted of 105 patients who had knee arthroplasty due to knee arthrosis followed by 6- weeks physiotherapy, mean age 68.5 ± 7.3 years. The patients were randomly divided into two groups: I - telerehabilitation group (n=54), and II clinical control group (n=51), who received physiotherapy supervised by physiotherapist. All patients were given the following tests: VAS (0-10), 6-Minute Walk Test, and KSS - Knee Society Score.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• total cemented knee arthroplasty with posterior stability (PS -cruciate sacrificing, posterior stabilized),
• informed consent to participate in the study,
• full medical record,
• patients' regular control visits,
• knee degenerative disorder stage II and III according to Altman classification,
• ability to understand and independently perform the complete physiotherapeutic programme

Exclusion criteria

• partial arthroplasty,
• deformation aetiology other knee degenerative disorder,
• cognitive disorders resulting in inability to fill out the study questionnaire, - degenerative disorders of multiple joints,
• poor general health that prevented the patient from understanding or performing the full physiotherapeutic programme,
• intraoperative and postoperative complications preventing the patient from understanding or performing the full physiotherapeutic programme,
• lack of informed consent to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

telerehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

physiotherapeutic programme brochure exercises 7/week controlled by phone every week (5x in total)

Treatment:

Other: telerehabilitation

standard physiotherapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Supervised physical therapy 3/ week, + physiotherapeutic programme brochure 4/week

Treatment:

Procedure: standard physiotherapy