Action Observation in Hip Replacement

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus30 enrolled

Overview

Postoperative rehabilitation is required for a successful outcome following total hip 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 Hip Replacement

Interventions

Video of the exercises

Control groupDEVICE

video of nature scenes

Conventional physiotherapyDEVICE

Mobilization, exercises and transfer practice.

Eligibility

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

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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