Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT06101355 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2025-05-02

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Summary

In patients who have had joint replacement surgery, there is a shortage of concrete evidence regarding the effectiveness of telerehabilitation. The aim of this study is to compare telerehabilitation with home based exercise program and standard home exercise program in total knee arthroplasty.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Telerehabilitation

Intervention group is home exercise program supplemented with visual and video resources using telerehabilitation. With the exercises, there will be video links, exercise visuals, and written explanations. Videos and visuals of the exercises recorded by the physiotherapist and uploaded to the Rehab My Patient application. Digital exercise forms will be prepared through the Rehab My Patient application. The intervention group will receive exercises, which prepared from the Rehab My Patient application ,digitally through WhatsApp. In this group, exercise sessions will be conducted with the physiotherapist once a week through video calls. Additionally, there will be one instance of messaging and one phone call for follow-up. Video calls and messaging will be conducted through WhatsApp.

OTHER

Standard Home Based Exercise Group

Control group, standard home exercise program group , will receive the program as brochures. Although there will be no video supplement, the brochure will include visuals of the exercises. The control group will be monitored through three weekly voice calls.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ankara Medipol University

    collaborator OTHER
  • Hacettepe University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sema Nur Aslan · Hacettepe University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-01
Primary Completion
2024-09-30
Completion
2024-09-30

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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