Effects of Bandaging and Kinesiotaping® in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty

Knee Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Bandaging and Kinesiotaping® on Pain, Edema, and Functional Level in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Early Postoperative Period: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05847725
• Other study ID #: HU-15/666-21
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2016

Study information

• Verified date: May 2023
• Source: Hacettepe University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of elastic bandaging, Kinesio taping, and short stretch bandaging techniques on postoperative pain, edema, and functional level in the early stage after total knee arthroplasty.

Description:

The study was conducted on 30 volunteer subjects who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty surgery. Thirty participants who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty were divided into the Elastic Bandage Group (n=10), Kinesio Tape group (n=10), and Short Stretch Bandage group (n=10). All treatments were stopped on the eighth day. All measurements taken preoperatively were repeated postoperative 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 14th, 28th days, 6th week, and 3rd month. The functional level was measured in the sixth week and third month.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 2016
• Est. primary completion date: June 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 85 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 60 years or older patients who had undergone unilateral TKA surgery for primary knee osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and posttraumatic arthritis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Body mass index greater than or equal to 35 kg/m2,
• Having a neurological or peripheral vascular disease,
• Having a contraindication condition for compression application (e.g., acute cellulitis, arterial insufficiency, unstable heart disease, acute deep vein thrombosis), and kinesio taping application (e.g., presence of active infectious, lymphedema and/ or cancer history)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Knee Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Knee

Intervention

Other:
• Elastic bandaging
The bandages were wrapped circularly along the extremity from the toes to the groin, drawing an "8" at the ankle with a 50% overlap rate, starting with 80% tension and decreasing the pressure proximally.
• Short stretch bandaging
Short tension bandage application was started on postoperative day 1 following the removal of the drains. According to the width of the extremity, using short tension bandages of 6, 8 and 10 cm width, starting from the sole of the foot, the first layer was wrapped circularly with 50% overlapping rate, 80% tension, and wrapped from the sole of the foot to the groin.
• Kinesio taping
Kinesio taping was applied in the form of a fan by cutting into 4 longitudinal pieces using the lymphatic correction technique with 15-20% tension, starting from the periphery of the inguinal lymph nodes on the medial, anterior and lateral of the leg, following the removal of the drains from the 1st post-op day.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hacettepe University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Visual Analogue Scale	Pain intensity, Minumum score 0: no pain, maximum score 10: worst pain	up to sixth weeks
Secondary	Measuring Tape Measure	Edema	up to sixth weeks
Secondary	The Knee Society Clinical Scoring System	Functional level assessment, maximum score 100, <60 poor, 60-69 average, 70-84 good, 85-100 excellent	up to sixth weeks