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Interferential Current Therapy After Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT03542981 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 113

Last updated 2018-06-01

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Summary

Interferential current is widely used as a popular treatment in painful musculoskeletal disorders. And total knee arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. So this study is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of interferential current implementation following total knee arthroplasty surgery. In this study interferential current compared with sham interferential current . Patients were assessed with pain, range of motion , edema and the amount of used paracetamol.

Conditions

  • Total Knee Arthroplasty

Interventions

DEVICE

Interferential Current

DEVICE

Sham Interferential Current

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ege University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • mehmet r kadı, MD · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Simin Hepguler, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Funda C Atamaz, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Emine Dede, md · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Semih Aydogu, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Kemal Aktuğlu, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Nadir Ozkayın, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

  • Cihat Ozturk, prof · Ege University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-09-09
Primary Completion
2015-09-01
Completion
2015-09-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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