Therapeutic Benefits of a Motor Imaging Protocol Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Surgery (IMAGERIEMOTR)

GCS Ramsay Santé pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear

Treatments: Other: sessions from a physical therapist; Procedure: Reconstructive surgery after anterior cruciate ligament rupture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT07210489

2025-A01415-44

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare changes in lower limb symmetry during functional and strength tests, before and after the motor imagery program, in patients who received the 3-week motor imagery program starting 3 months post-surgery versus patients who did not receive the motor imagery program.

Full description

This is a prospective, comparative, randomized, controlled, single-blind (patient), single-center study evaluating the effects of a motor imagery program in parallel with rehabilitation sessions in patients who have had an anterior cruciate ligament rupture.

The study population is composed of adult patients who underwent reconstructive surgery after anterior cruciate ligament rupture, followed up at the Clinique de la Sauvegarde in Lyon for post-operative functional and strength testing of the anterior cruciate ligament.

Patients included in the study will be randomized into two study arms (experimental arm and control arm).

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged 18 to 45;
• Individuals who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction for the first time on the operated leg;
• All types of surgery (harvesting of the new gracilis or patellar tendon) within 3 months prior to inclusion;
• Patients able to understand and read French;
• Affiliation with a social insurance plan;
• Signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Recurrence or rupture of the contralateral anterior cruciate ligament;
• Osteotomy;
• Cognitive disorders observed by the investigator;
• Vestibular disorders known to the patient or observed by the investigator;
• Post-surgical complications (infection, early graft rupture);
• Patient participating in another interventional clinical trial, or in a period of exclusion from another interventional study;
• Patient under guardianship or conservatorship;
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Motor imagery program

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive rehabilitation sessions from a physical therapist in accordance with standard practice and will be asked to complete a 3-week motor imagery program starting 3 months after anterior cruciate ligament surgery.

Treatment:

Other: sessions from a physical therapist

Procedure: Reconstructive surgery after anterior cruciate ligament rupture

Cognitive (non-motor) task program

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients will receive rehabilitation sessions from a physical therapist in accordance with standard practice and will be asked to complete a 3-week cognitive (non-motor) task program starting 3 months after anterior cruciate ligament surgery.

Treatment:

Other: sessions from a physical therapist

Procedure: Reconstructive surgery after anterior cruciate ligament rupture