Use of Continuous Passive Motion in the Post-Operative Treatment of Intra-articular Knee Fractures

Prisma Health-Upstate

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intra-articular Knee Fractures

Treatments

Other: Continuous Passive Motion

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00591929

GHS-12-06-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

Decreased range of motion is common after fractures around the knee and can impact a patient's ability to perform activities of daily living such as rising from a seated position or getting in and out of a bathtub. A continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is a machine that continuously moves a joint (such as the knee) without the patient having to use the muscles in his/her leg. A goal of this therapy is to maintain as much motion as possible following this injury. This study is a randomized, prospective study to evaluate the effectiveness of CPM in maintaining knee range of motion following open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of fractures around the knee

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 85 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

If the patient has an intra-articular distal femur or proximal tibia fracture
Independent ambulatory prior to injury
No previous knee injury limiting motion

Exclusion criteria

If the patients range of motion was decreased prior to injury (ex. Osteoarthritis, previous knee fracture or injury)
Any contraindication to CPM (concomitant hip or ankle fracture)
Open physis of tibia or distal femur
Pathological Fracture
Compartment Syndrome
Neurovascular injury
Fracture due to gunshot wound
Greater than 21 days from fracture to definitive open reduction and internal fixation
Fractures treated with definitive external fixation
Open fractures
Extensor mechanism injuries
Likely problems in the judgment of the investigator with maintaining follow-up