Walking Stick Exercise in Patients Underwent Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT ID: NCT05030662

Last Updated: 2023-08-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 88 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-10-31

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the effect of "hiking poles exercise" on lower extremity muscular strength, knee range of motion, and quality of life in elderly patients underwent total knee arthroplasty

Detailed Description

This is a longitudinal-experimental study. The data collection and analysis are in a single-blind manner. The study will be undertaken in the Department Orthopaedics of En Chu Kong hospital (approximate 500-bed regional teaching hospital). All patients who meet the inclusion criteria are admitted for primary total knee arthroplasty and assigned to control group or intervention group randomly. The 44 patients in the control group received routine guidance of " Rehabilitation and precautions for artificial knee replacement ". In addition to the routine guidance, the 44 patients in the intervention group received educations of " hiking poles exercise " on the day before surgery and before discharge, as well as a follow-up call at least once a week after discharge.

Conditions

Arthroplasty; Replacement; Knee Osteoarthritis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Experimental:Walking stick exercise

The experimental:Walking stick exercise

1. Education of walking stick exercise by research nurses twice before discharge (on the day before surgery and before discharge)

2. The video clip of "walking stick exercise" is available to the patients.

3. The research nurses encourage our patients to keep rehabilitation by phone calls once a week after discharge.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Walking stick exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

1. Education of walking stick exercise by research nurses twice before discharge (on the day before surgery and before discharge)

2. The video clip of "walking stick exercise" is available to the patients.

3. The research nurses encourage our patients to keep rehabilitation by phone calls once a week after discharge.

Control group: conventional physical therapy.

1. Perform bed mobility and transfers with the least amount of assistance while maintaining appropriate weight bearing (WB) precautions.

2. Ambulate with an assistive device for 25-100 feet and ascend/descend stairs to allow for independence with household activities while maintaining appropriate WB.

3. Verbalize understanding of post-operative activity recommendations/precautions including use of proper positioning of the lower extremity, range of motion and strengthening exercises.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Walking stick exercise

1. Education of walking stick exercise by research nurses twice before discharge (on the day before surgery and before discharge)

2. The video clip of "walking stick exercise" is available to the patients.

3. The research nurses encourage our patients to keep rehabilitation by phone calls once a week after discharge.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age between 60 and 85 years
• Informed consent
• Receipt of elective unilateral primary knee arthroplasty surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-degenerative arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, or traumatic arthritis
• Patients receiving rehabilitation simultaneously
• Patients with other musculoskeletal or neurological problems, including fractures, Parkinsonism, cerebrovascular events, or patients with multiple comorbidities
• Cancer patients receive chemotherapy
• Patients with the peri-operative complication that has an adverse effect on outcomes,for example: intra-operative fractures, thromboembolism, peri-operative infections, or phlebitis

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Yu Hua Chou

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Yu Hua Chou

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

none,specify Unaffiliated

Locations

TAIWAN

New Taipei City, , Taiwan

Countries

Taiwan

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

YChou

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id