Action Observation in Knee Replacement

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ETS41 enrolled

Overview

Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total knee arthroplasty. Traditionally rehabilitative programs aim to increase range of motion, to strengthen quadriceps, to restore normal gait, and to recover independence in activities of daily living. In the last decade action observation treatment, in addition to conventional physiotherapy has been proposed as a treatment method in rehabilitative medicine. There is growing evidence of the applicability of action observation training in rehabilitative medicine, indeed it has been applied in the rehabilitation of stroke of Parkinson disease of cerebral palsy and of aphasia. Nevertheless those are small studies and one of them included a mixed population of hip and knee arthroplasty.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Total Knee Replacement

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Primary total knee replacement. Exclusion Criteria: * bilateral knee replacement * previous total knee replacement. * pre-existing motor impairment (i.e. hemiparesis, poliomyelitis, lumbar sciatica);