Femur Fracture Clinical Trial
Official title:
Vastus Intermedius Dry Needling for Knee Stiffness Resulted From Surgically Managed Femoral Fractures With Open Reduction & Internal Fixation; Randomized Controlled Trial (ORIFDN Trial)
Orthopedic traumatic injuries are considered a major health epidemic, challenged by high morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic burden. The management of traumatic orthopedic injuries is challenging and complex, with high resources utilization. Particularly, the prevalence of femoral fractures in Kuwait is 8.8%, being one of the most prevalent injuries. Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a common surgical procedure for the management of femoral fractures demonstrating successful outcome for allowing minimally invasive percutaneous plate osteosynthesis, early union of 93% to 100%, and low infection rate of only 0% to 2%. Yet, one of the major complications post ORIF is knee stiffness and reduced function, which brings many inconveniences to patients' daily lives, lead to disability, and could seriously threaten the functional activities of patients. The incidence of knee stiffness requiring surgical intervention is 14.5%. Particularly, the potential loss of knee flexion is 30 to 40 degrees, 13% of the patients failed to reach 90 degrees of knee flexion, and only 48% of patients reached >120 degrees of flexion. Ultimately, knee stiffness in flexion forms a major issue in distal femoral fractures. Various reasons could explain such complication including intrinsic adhesions, fibrosis and shortening of the vastus intermedius muscle. There are various surgical procedures which could be used to manage knee stiffness. However, there is no consensus regarding the ideal approach and strategy with many postoperative complications including deep sepsis, quadricep tendon rupture, skin dehiscence and infection, delayed wound healing, patella fracture, lateral femoral condyle fracture and extension lag. In contrast, dry needling (DN) is a minimal invasive intervention for the management of musculoskeletal dysfunction, and it could be used to reduce the adhesion and fibrosis between the vastus intermedius and the femoral bone. However, there is limited research investigating the effect of DN on the vastus intermedius muscle after ORIF of the femoral fractures. The effectiveness of DN was explored for the management of various musculoskeletal conditions, and a systematic review addressing DN in the lower quarter concluded that DN is an effective procedure (Morihisa et a,., 2016). In ACL reconstruction, DN for the vastus medialis improved ROM at short-term and improved function at both short and long term. DN has been proposed as a useful addition to the rehabilitation of ACL reconstructed in reducing pain intensity, increasing knee flexion range, and modifying the mechanical properties of the quadriceps muscle during the late-stage of rehabilitation. DN has also altered the passive mechanical properties of the quadriceps muscle where decrement and resistance of the vastus medialis were significantly reduced. It is hypothesized that releasing the adhesions and fibrosis of the vastus intermedius could play an important role in managing knee stiffness post ORIF of the distal femur fractures. Therefore, the aim of this project is to identify the incidence rate and risk factors of knee stiffness resulted from surgically managed femoral fractures with open reduction and internal fixation in Kuwait, and to investigate the effect of DN on the vastus intermedius muscle in improving knee joint range of motion and function after ORIF of the distal femur using single blind randomized controlled trial (RCT).
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