Action Observation in Knee Replacement

Total Knee Replacement Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02707419
• Other study ID #: Dongnocchi
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 27, 2016
• Last updated: March 8, 2016
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: October 2014

Study information

• Verified date: March 2016
• Source: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Italy: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 41
• Est. completion date: October 2014
• Est. primary completion date: September 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

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);

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Total Knee Replacement

Intervention

Device:
• Experimental group
Video of the exercises
• Control group
video of nature scenes
• Conventional physiotherapy
Mobilization, exercises and transfer practice.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Jorge Hugo Villafañe	Piossasco	Turin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change of Pain intensity	Visual Analogue Scale	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes
Primary	Change of Range Of Motion	Active and passive range of motion of knee	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes
Secondary	Barthel index	Barthel index	Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes
Secondary	Short Form-36 motor		Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes
Secondary	Tinetti scale		Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes
Secondary	Lequesne index		Baseline and immediately post-intervention	Yes