This is a RCT which compare skin numbness, kneeling ability and functional outcome between midline incision and lateral incision in patients undergoing simultaneous bilateral TKA
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Skin incision on medial or lateral to tibial tubercle
department of orthopaedic surgery, Faculty of medicine, Thammasat university
Khlong Luang, Changwat Pathum Thani, Thailand
Skin numbness
area of skin numbness
Time frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 , 9, 12 months after surgery
Kneeling ability
Ability to kneel at 90 and 110 degrees on hard, firm and soft surface
Time frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 , 9, 12 months after surgery
Functional outcome
Modified WOMAC, Joint forgotten score
Time frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 , 9, 12 months after surgery
Knee range of motion
flexion and extension angle of knee by goniometer
Time frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 , 9, 12 months after surgery
Incision length
Skin incision length at 90 degrees knee flexion
Time frame: 3 months
Complication
chronic eczema at surgical wound
Time frame: 6 weeks, 3, 6 , 9, 12 months after surgery
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