The Role of BEMER and Kinesiotape in Increasing the Effectiveness of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Program After Videothoracoscopy Surgery

Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa (IUC)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Pain, Post Operative

Treatments: Other: Kinesiotape Group; Other: Control Group; Other: BEMER Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05651048

ICU-KARCI-3477

Details and patient eligibility

About

The literature indicates that postoperative pulmonary complications are seen when pain is not treated effectively after videothoracoscopy surgery (VATS). After surgery, physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches are applied to prevent complications. Bio-Electro-Magnetic-Energy-Regulation (BEMER) therapy uses low-frequency electromagnetic energy to regulate vasomotion in capillaries and increase microcirculation. BEMER therapy can be applied together with physiotherapy and rehabilitation. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of BEMER application, which is added to the physiotherapy and rehabilitation program applied after videothoracoscopy surgery.

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria for the study were to have undergone VATS lobectomy and to be aged between 18 and 75 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of pacemaker, severe cardiac failure, severe arrhythmia
• Those with cooperative disorders
• Presence of neurological or orthopedic problems affecting the extremities
• Those with severe psychiatric disorders
• Failure to perform the operation according to the result of intraoperative tumor staging
• Patients who go out of the standard Analgesia protocol
• Patients who were taken back from the service to the intensive care unit

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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45 participants in 3 patient groups

BEMER Group

Experimental group

Description:

BEMER application with routine treatment protocol

Treatment:

Other: BEMER Group

Kinesiotape Group

Experimental group

Description:

Kinesiotape application with routine treatment protocol

Treatment:

Other: Kinesiotape Group

Control Group

Experimental group

Description:

routine treatment protocol

Treatment:

Other: Control Group