The Effect of Contralateral Limb Training on Functional Outcomes in Patients With ACL Reconstruction

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Treatments: Other: Traditional rehabilitation; Other: Cross-over training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03304561

123456

Details and patient eligibility

About

Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction and one of the main focus of rehabilitation is to improve strenght of these muscles. With the strenghtening of the contralateral limb (cross-over training) we aimed to improve the strenght of the quadriceps

Full description

Returning to sport after ACL reconstruction is not at desired level among athletes. Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction. Cross-over training is recomended during rehabilitation after ACL reconstrucion. Yet duration of the training, frequancy and type of exercise interention are not clear for the cross-over training. Ain of the study is to investigate the effects of cross-over training on muscle strenght

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having surgery of ACL reconstruction on one side
• having no problem at least six month on the nonsrgical side
• recieving the rehabilitation programme at hacettepe university, physiotherapy department

Exclusion criteria

• refusing to include to the study
• having revision ACL surgery
• addition of PCL or cartilage surgery addition to the ACL surgery
• not participating to the rehabilidation program regularly over 3 month after sugery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

traditional rehabilitation

Experimental group

Description:

patients in this groups is going to recieve traditional rehabilitation programme for 3 months after ACL recontsruction

Treatment:

Other: Traditional rehabilitation

Cross-over training

Experimental group

Description:

patients in this programme is going to recieve isokinetic exercise programme targeting unilvolved limb during rehabilitation. for the first 4 weeks after ACL reconstruction traditional rehabiitation programme is going to applied to the subjects. after 4 weeks, isokinetic strenghtening programme at 60˚/second angular velocity, between 0-90 degree knee flexion until 3 months after ACL reconstructon

Treatment:

Other: Cross-over training