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Weight-bearing Recommendation After Replacement of the Hip or Knee Joint

NCT00266396 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 352

Last updated 2016-04-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Despite the widespread use of total hip and knee arthroplasty, there is a notable lack of consensus regarding postoperative treatment, mostly because of the lack of well-designed studies testing the efficacy and effectiveness of such practices. In particular, there are no evidence-based recommendations on the amount of weight that the patient should be advised to bear on the operated leg after the operation.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Recommend full weight-bearing

The full weight-bearing group is trained in 4-point gait with crutches and is recommended to put as much weight as tolerated on the leg on which surgery has been performed, immediately after surgery

BEHAVIORAL

Recommend parital weight-bearing

The partial weight-bearing group is trained in 3-point gait with crutches and is instructed to limit weight-bearing of the affected leg to 20kg for a period of six-weeks. Scales are used to train these participants not to exceed 20kg

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Verein zur Förderung der Erforschung und Bekämpfung rheumatischer Erkrankungen Bad Bramstedt e.V

    collaborator OTHER

  • Landesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Landesversicherungsanstalt Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe

    collaborator OTHER

  • Verein zur Förderung der Rehabilitationsforschung in Schleswig-Holstein

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thoralf R Liebs, MD · University of Schleswig-Holstein Medical Center, Kiel Campus

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-01-31
Primary Completion
2007-01-31
Completion
2007-01-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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