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Virtual vs. Traditional Physical Therapy Following Total Knee Replacement

NCT02914210 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 306

Last updated 2021-11-02

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Summary

The goals of this research study are the following:

1. To compare the effects of tele-rehabilitation-supported physical therapy versus traditional home and/or clinic-based physical therapy for total knee replacement (TKR) on 90-day health service use costs.
2. To compare tele-rehabilitation-supported physical therapy and traditional physical therapy on patient-centered outcomes
3. To explore whether individual patient characteristics are associated with differential improvement from 6 to 12 weeks assessed by patient-reported outcomes.

Conditions

  • Total Knee Replacement

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual physical therapy rehabilitation program

Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (VERA), a virtual physical therapy delivery system installed in patient's home

OTHER

No intervention

Traditional physical therapy delivered in clinic or via home-health visits

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Janet Bettger, ScD · Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2018-03-31
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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