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Educational Physiotherapy in Haemophilia

NCT02825706 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2016-07-07

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Summary

Although arthropathy is a serious problem in patients with hemophilia due to the associated morbidity and incapacity, to the best of the investigators knowledge, no studies have looked at the effect of educational physiotherapy for its clinical improvement.

This contribution presents the results of educational physiotherapy program applied for 15 weeks with home exercises - in patients with hemophilic arthropathy. After treatment, experimental group showed improved a significant reduction of pain, and best quality of life al illness behaviour. During treatment no patient showed elbow haemarthrosis, which underlines the safety of this physiotherapy program.

Conditions

  • Haemophilia

Interventions

OTHER

Educational physiotherapy group

20 patients with hemophilia were randomly allocated to an educational intervention or to a control group. The educational intervention was performed every two weeks during 15-week and home exercises were performed once a day, 6 days a week, in the same time

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rubén Cuesta-Barriuso, PhD · Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-29
Primary Completion
2012-10-31
Completion
2015-04-30

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