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Quadriceps Function Prior to Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

NCT00971451 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2011-03-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients who are diagnosed with an isolated tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and scheduled for arthroscopic reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft will be recruited to participate.

All subjects will be invited to participate in 2 weeks (2 supervised sessions per week) prior to their surgery. Each session will include supervised therapeutic exercises. Subjects will be randomly assigned to receive continuous transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) during each session or knee joint cryotherapy prior to each exercise session. The investigators will measure quadriceps function before and after this 2-week intervention (both sessions occur prior to reconstruction surgery). This study will also have a true control group that will not receive either exercise of modality intervention. The investigators will collect subjective and objective outcomes data at regularly scheduled post-operative visits.

Conditions

  • Rupture of Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Interventions

OTHER

cryotherapy

20 minutes of knee joint cryotherapy - ice bag application

OTHER

TENS

continuous use of TENS during the exercise session

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Virginia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joseph M Hart, Ph.D. · University of Virginia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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