Several studies exist on patient performance in drive simulators especially around and after surgery. Recommendations concerning the ability to drive preoperatively are based on these studies, which generated their data using drive simulators. However, in all the datasets driving performance remains highly individual. Since a drive simulator is not readily available in normal general practitioner surgeries it would be helpful to have convenient clinical tests to evaluate a patients individual ability to perform an emergency stop. This study aims at evaluating different possibilities how such performance might be predicted. Patients with knee osteoarthritis and patients who have received total knee arthroplasty are tested clinically and their results are compared with the gold standard experiment - a drive simulator.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
University Hospital Tuebingen, Department of Orthopaedics
Tübingen, Germany
Correlation of knee functionality and braking performance
Evaluation of degree of correlation of braking performance (total brake response time) and clinical testing of knee functionality in patients with right knee osteoarthritis or total knee arthroplasty. One time point of evaluation for each participant.
Time frame: Osteoarthritis group: at consultation, Total knee arthroplasty group: more than 5 weeks postoperatively, at consultation
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