Impact of a Technique of Massage During the First Week of Hospitalization on the Recycling of the Mobility of the Knee Further to the Installation of Knee Replacement

Orthopedic Surgery Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Impact of a Technique of Massage During the First Week of Hospitalization on the Recycling of the Mobility of the Knee Further to the Installation of Knee Replacement

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02278627
• Other study ID #: I11002
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2017

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: University Hospital, Limoges
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

During fthe first postoperative days, physiotherapists supported patients with knee replacement in orthopaedics of Saint-Junien's and Limoges' hospitals. This support includes movements of the leg in active and non active motions, without any help and with an arthromotor, and involves walking rehabilitation.

The investigators would like to complete the physiotherapist's support with manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) using a specific method based on pressure of finger splayed (PFS). This might have a positive impact on time recovery of joint range, on postoperative oedema resorbtion and on patient's pain during rehabilitation classes.

French National Authority for Health specifies there is not a single study assessing massage effects on knee replacement, according to current bibliography.

The investigators purpose is the establishment of a prospective, controlled, randomised trial referred as a "superiority" trial. A total of 98 patients divided in 2 parallel groups will be created.

The study will be in an open-label manner for both patient and physiotherapist involved in walk rehabilitation but will be conducted as a blinded study for the investigating physiotherapist.

Inclusion period will be 17 months and the following period will be 6 weeks.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 44
• Est. completion date: December 2017
• Est. primary completion date: April 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• At least 18-years-old patients.

• Men and women operated for a knee replacement.

• Patients affiliated to a social security system and having given their informed consent write.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients operated on Fridays

• Patients presenting contraindications to the administration of a treatment by héparine

• Patients affected by insane pathology or by confusion.

• Patients participating in another medical research

• Pregnant and breast-feeding women and without effective contraception.

• Patients under guardianship or guardianship.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Orthopedic Surgery

Intervention

Other:
• manual lymphatic drainage

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	University Hospital, Limoges	Limoges

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Limoges

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To measure the joint range at day 7 after operation	The measures will be made with a goniometer	2 days (Day 0 and Day 7)
Secondary	To measure the oedema at day 7 after operation		2 days (Day 0 and Day 7)