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Gait Analysis Meniscal Repair

NCT02474004 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2016-07-19

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Summary

In the past it was shown, that medial partial meniscectomy (MPM) leads to an increase of the knee adduction moment (KAM) during walking. Other researches found out that an increase of the KAM is an important factor contributing to degeneration joint disease of the knee (osteoarthritis). Today, medial menicus repair (MMR) is favoured by many knee surgeons, because preserving as much of the meniscus as possible is assumed to delay degenerative joint disease.

The investigators hypothesize significant differences in knee adduction moments between patients treated with partial medial meniscectomy vs. patients treated with medial meniscus repair (hypothesis 1; major hypothesis). Additionally, it is hypothesized that: the mentioned groups differ with respect to other kinetic and kinematic key parameters of gait (hypothesis 2) and that the knee adduction moment correlates with the clinical outcome as determined by a typical knee score (hypothesis 3).

Conditions

  • Lesion of the Medial Meniscus

Interventions

PROCEDURE

medial meniscal surgery

one group/arm has meniscal repair as part of clinical routine one group/arm has meniscal partial resection as part of clinical routine both groups have gait analysis \& knee scores 6 mo after the procedures

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Michael Liebensteiner

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-29
Primary Completion
2017-02-28

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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