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The Efficacy of Rehabilitation Exercise on the Non-operative Limb Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

NCT02722876 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 44

Last updated 2020-10-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a cross-education rehabilitation intervention following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on ameliorating the acute losses to function and performance. The cross-education phenomenon describes the strength gain in the opposite, untrained (surgical) limb following unilateral resistance training of the 'trained' (non-surgical) limb.

Conditions

  • Musculoskeletal System

Interventions

OTHER

Contralateral Rehabilitation

Patients will undergo resistance training of the thigh musculature of the non-injured (contralateral) limb 3 times per week. The exercises will consist of unilateral: knee extensions; knee flexions and; leg-press, all performed on commercially-available resistance training machines. To optimise strength gains, patients will work to the 5 repetition-maximum rule (Kraemer et al. 2002); 3 sets of each exercise will be performed and a 2-minute rest will separate each set. Sessions will take no longer than 15-20 minutes, including rest.

OTHER

Placebo flexibility exercise

Patients will perform 'placebo' flexibility training of the upper limb, which will involve a time-matched stretching programme targeting the latissimus dorsi, triceps brachii, biceps brachii, trapezius and pectoral muscles of both limbs. Each stretch will be performed twice, held for 20-30 seconds each time and will be followed by a 30-second rest (McCrary et al. 2015)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District NHS Trust

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Andrea Bailey, PhD · The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-30
Primary Completion
2019-01-06
Completion
2019-07-08

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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