Effects of Bandaging and Kinesiotaping® in Patients With Total Knee Arthroplasty

Hacettepe University30 enrolled

Overview

The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of elastic bandaging, Kinesio taping, and short stretch bandaging techniques on postoperative pain, edema, and functional level in the early stage after total knee arthroplasty.

The study was conducted on 30 volunteer subjects who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty surgery. Thirty participants who underwent unilateral total knee arthroplasty were divided into the Elastic Bandage Group (n=10), Kinesio Tape group (n=10), and Short Stretch Bandage group (n=10). All treatments were stopped on the eighth day. All measurements taken preoperatively were repeated postoperative 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 14th, 28th days, 6th week, and 3rd month. The functional level was measured in the sixth week and third month.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Elastic bandagingOTHER

The bandages were wrapped circularly along the extremity from the toes to the groin, drawing an "8" at the ankle with a 50% overlap rate, starting with 80% tension and decreasing the pressure proximally.

Short stretch bandagingOTHER

Short tension bandage application was started on postoperative day 1 following the removal of the drains. According to the width of the extremity, using short tension bandages of 6, 8 and 10 cm width, starting from the sole of the foot, the first layer was wrapped circularly with 50% overlapping rate, 80% tension, and wrapped from the sole of the foot to the groin.

Kinesio tapingOTHER

Kinesio taping was applied in the form of a fan by cutting into 4 longitudinal pieces using the lymphatic correction technique with 15-20% tension, starting from the periphery of the inguinal lymph nodes on the medial, anterior and lateral of the leg, following the removal of the drains from the 1st post-op day.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 60 YearsMax age: 85 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 60 years or older patients who had undergone unilateral TKA surgery for primary knee osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and posttraumatic arthritis. Exclusion Criteria: * Body mass index greater than or equal to 35 kg/m2, * Having a neurological or peripheral vascular disease, * Having a contraindication condition for compression application (e.g., acute cellulitis, arterial insufficiency, unstable heart disease, acute deep vein thrombosis), and kinesio taping application (e.g., presence of active infectious, lymphedema and/ or cancer history)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Visual Analogue Scale

Pain intensity, Minumum score 0: no pain, maximum score 10: worst pain

Time frame: up to sixth weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Measuring Tape Measure

Edema

Time frame: up to sixth weeks

The Knee Society Clinical Scoring System

Functional level assessment, maximum score 100, \<60 poor, 60-69 average, 70-84 good, 85-100 excellent

Time frame: up to sixth weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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