Trial of Weight Bearing Status Following Femoral Revision With Tapered, Fluted, Titanium Stems

Rothman Institute Orthopaedics

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Postoperative Pain; Hip Arthroplasty

Treatments: Procedure: 6 weeks of toe-touch weight bearing after surgery; Procedure: immediate weight bearing after surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04592939

PMC20D.220

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial of all patients undergoing femoral revision at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Rothman Institute undergoing femoral revision surgery with the use of a modern titanium, fluted, tapered stem. At the time of surgery, patients will be randomized to six weeks of toe-touch weight bearing or immediate weight bearing as tolerated

Enrollment: 169 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• femoral revision patients with the use of a modern titanium, fluted, tapered stem.

Exclusion criteria

• include cemented fixation of the stem and patients with a tenuous acetabular reconstruction for whom the surgeon would like to protect weight bearing

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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169 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1: immediate weight bearing

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: immediate weight bearing after surgery

Group 2: 6 week toe touch weight bearing

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: 6 weeks of toe-touch weight bearing after surgery