Quadriceps Function Prior to Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Rupture of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Clinical Trial

Official title: Quadriceps Function Prior to Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Patients who are diagnosed with an isolated tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and scheduled for arthroscopic reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft will be recruited to participate.

All subjects will be invited to participate in 2 weeks (2 supervised sessions per week) prior to their surgery. Each session will include supervised therapeutic exercises. Subjects will be randomly assigned to receive continuous transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) during each session or knee joint cryotherapy prior to each exercise session. The investigators will measure quadriceps function before and after this 2-week intervention (both sessions occur prior to reconstruction surgery). This study will also have a true control group that will not receive either exercise of modality intervention. The investigators will collect subjective and objective outcomes data at regularly scheduled post-operative visits.

Clinical Trial Description

n/a

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Rupture of Anterior Cruciate Ligament

• NCT number: NCT00971451
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Virginia
• Contact: Joseph M Hart, Ph.D.
• Phone: 434-243-0256
• Email: jmh3zf@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2007
• Completion date: December 2011