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Does Physical Therapy Prevent Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients With End Stage Osteoarthritis

NCT02377102 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2017-11-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Purpose: For the target population of adult patients with end stage osteoarthritis, this randomized clinical trial will be used to evaluate the benefit of three months of physical therapy compared to no treatment in patients indicated for total knee arthroplasty.

Participants:Patients that are diagnosed with end stage osteoarthritis who are indicated for total knee arthroplasty.

Procedures: Patients will be randomized to either receive physical therapy or no treatment. They will be scheduled to return in 3 months for discussion of operative versus continued nonoperative treatment of their osteoarthritis.This will be determined by change in PROMIS (Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System) score and prevention of surgery.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Physical Therapy

12 weeks of supervised physical therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel J Del Gaizo, MD · UNC Orthopaedics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-02-28
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2017-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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