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NCT Number: NCT02707419

Action Observation in Knee Replacement

Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total knee arthroplasty. Traditionally rehabilitative programs aim to increase range of motion, to strengthen quadriceps, to restore normal gait, and to recover independence in activities of daily living. In the last decade action observation treatment, in addition to conventional physiotherapy has been proposed as a treatment method in rehabilitative medicine. There is growing evidence of the applicability of action observation training in rehabilitative medicine, indeed it has been applied in the rehabilitation of stroke of Parkinson disease of cerebral palsy and of aphasia.

Nevertheless those are small studies and one of them included a mixed population of hip and knee arthroplasty.

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Key information

Conditions

Total Knee Replacement

Age range

18 year–90 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Jorge Hugo Villafañe

Piossasco, Turin, 10045, Italy

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Primary total knee replacement.

Exclusion criteria

  • bilateral knee replacement
  • previous total knee replacement.
  • pre-existing motor impairment (i.e. hemiparesis, poliomyelitis, lumbar sciatica);

Treatment and study plan

Experimental Group

Device

Video of the exercises

Control group

Device

video of nature scenes

Conventional physiotherapy

Device

Mobilization, exercises and transfer practice.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change of Pain intensity

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

    Visual Analogue Scale

  2. Change of Range Of Motion

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

    Active and passive range of motion of knee

Secondary outcomes

  1. Barthel index

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

    Barthel index

  2. Short Form-36 motor

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

  3. Tinetti scale

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

  4. Lequesne index

    Time frame: Baseline and immediately post-intervention

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ETS

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Self-administered Action Observation Treatment Enhance the Efficacy of Inpatient Rehabilitation After Total Knee Replacement: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
Mar 14, 2016
Registry last updated
Mar 14, 2016

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