WEakness and Atrophy: isoKinetic With Surface Electromyography Assessment in ACL Surgery (WEAKNESS)

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury; Muscle Weakness

Treatments: Other: isokinetic assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03200678

2017RC01 (Other Identifier)

2017-A00301-52

Details and patient eligibility

About

An assessment of the effect of surgical anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) on thigh muscles is critical to the improvement of knee rehabilitation and preservation. However, if a large number of studies had rated surgical technics, giving high results level for ACL reconstruction (ACLR), muscle recovery is still conditioning functional success. Furthermore there is no consensus about criteria in return to sport.

The aim of this exploratory study is to quantify the mechanisms of neuromuscular adaptation of muscle thigh after ACL surgery.

Full description

The aim of this study is to assess the qualitative and quantitative variations of the strength, work and fatigue of the thigh muscles after ACL surgery. The reference is the preoperative assessment (V1), the variation is measured on V2 (measurements at 3 months) and V3 (measures at 9 months). Each patient is his own control. In addition, a control group of healthy subjects is used to determine level of significance of each parameter.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

ACLR group :

• men or woman
• 18 to 45 years old
• No injuries sequels on contralateral limb
• No contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging

Control group :

• men or woman
• 18 to 45 years old
• No limb injuries sequels
• No contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging

Exclusion criteria

• age less than 18 years
• limb injuries sequels
• contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

ACLR Group

Experimental group

Description:

experimental: ACL surgery Intervention: isokinetic assessment

Treatment:

Other: isokinetic assessment

Control group

Other group

Description:

other Intervention: isokinetic assessment

Treatment:

Other: isokinetic assessment