Inpatient Versus Outpatient Rehabilitation After TKA

N/ACompletedNCT02120313

University of Rostock42 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty. No studies exist that have evaluated these two rehabilitation programmes in a specific orthopaedic patient population with a focus on motor performance. We hypothesized that patients participating in outpatient care tend to be physically more active than patients in the rehabilitation clinic, leading to the assumption that outpatient rehabilitation has superior functional outcomes compared to the inpatient standard-of-care therapy.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

inpatient rehabilitationOTHER

outpatient rehabilitationOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 50 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * patients with knee osteoarthritis and scheduled for primary TKA * age: 50-80 Exclusion Criteria: * BMI \> 40 * musculoskeletal and neurological disorders that limit physical function * any planned further joint surgery within 6 months * substantial pain or functional limitation which make the patients unable to perform study procedures

Locations (1)

Department of Orthopedics, University Medicine Rostock

Rostock, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

physical activity (number of steps)

over a period of 7 days using activPAL activity recording system

Time frame: during the first seven days of rehabilitation and 3 months post surgery (posttest)

Secondary Outcomes

gait performance

spatio-temporal and temprophasic gait parameters

Time frame: posttest (3 months after surgery)

maximal active and passive knee joint range of motion

digital long-arm goniometer