Millimeter Wave Therapy (MWT) for Analgesia After Total Knee Replacement

University Medicine Greifswald80 enrolled

Overview

The aim of the study was to test whether the exposure to electromagnetic millimeter waves - Millimeter Wave Therapy (MWT) is effective for relief of acute postoperative pain in patients after elective unilateral total knee arthroplasty (TKA)

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Pain Acute Pain

Interventions

Generator of electromagnetic millimeter wavesDEVICE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 35 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of II or III scheduled for elective TKA * without previous opioid medication * patients 35-80 years old able to use PCA pumps and Visual Analogue Scale for pain intensity measurement * patients who have signed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * pregnant or nursing females * recidivist alcoholics * extremely obese patients (body mass index \> 35) * inability to operate PCA-pump. * females with the history of unstable angina pectoris (s. Risks for participants) * patients who are unable to understand the consent form * systemic infection * history of psychiatric disease * necessity to change postoperative analgesic scheme for particular patient * severe intercurrent disease during the course of MWT

Locations (1)

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Department, University of Greifswald, Germany

Greifswald, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Total amount of weak opioid drug piritramide delivered via Patient-Controlled-Analgesia pump, registered daily until the 3rd postoperative day

Secondary Outcomes

Total amount of ibuprofen; pain intensity measured on VAS-100 twice a day; Insall knee function score; incidence of analgesia side-effects ; inflammation and wound healing parameters; credibility of patients' and research stuff blinding

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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