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NCT Number: NCT02120313

Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation After TKA

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty. No studies exist that have evaluated these two rehabilitation programmes in a specific orthopaedic patient population with a focus on motor performance. We hypothesized that patients participating in outpatient care tend to be physically more active than patients in the rehabilitation clinic, leading to the assumption that outpatient rehabilitation has superior functional outcomes compared to the inpatient standard-of-care therapy.

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Key information

Conditions

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Age range

50 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Orthopedics, University Medicine Rostock

Rostock, 18057, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • patients with knee osteoarthritis and scheduled for primary TKA
  • age: 50-80

Exclusion criteria

  • BMI > 40
  • musculoskeletal and neurological disorders that limit physical function
  • any planned further joint surgery within 6 months
  • substantial pain or functional limitation which make the patients unable to perform study procedures

Treatment and study plan

inpatient rehabilitation

Other

outpatient rehabilitation

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. physical activity (number of steps)

    Time frame: during the first seven days of rehabilitation and 3 months post surgery (posttest)

    over a period of 7 days using activPAL activity recording system

Secondary outcomes

  1. gait performance

    Time frame: posttest (3 months after surgery)

    spatio-temporal and temprophasic gait parameters

  2. maximal active and passive knee joint range of motion

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    digital long-arm goniometer

  3. stair climbing performance

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    stair climbing test

  4. timed up and go performance

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    timed up and go test

  5. joint position sense

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    The subjects' ability to actively reproduce a previously presented knee flexion angle (30° and 50° of knee Flexion)

  6. knee pain

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    visual analogue scale

  7. knee joint swelling

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    measurement of circumference

  8. long-term Memory representation of the gait

    Time frame: change from baseline (9 days after surgery) to posttest (3 months after surgery)

    structural dimensional analysis of mental representation (SDA-M)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Rostock

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2016
Study completion
2016
First posted
Apr 22, 2014
Registry last updated
May 23, 2017

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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