NCT00591929

Use of Continuous Passive Motion in the Post-Operative Treatment of Intra-articular Knee Fractures

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Prisma Health-Upstate · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Decreased range of motion is common after fractures around the knee and can impact a patient's ability to perform activities of daily living such as rising from a seated position or getting in and out of a bathtub. A continuous passive motion (CPM) machine is a machine that continuously moves a joint (such as the knee) without the patient having to use the muscles in his/her leg. A goal of this therapy is to maintain as much motion as possible following this injury. This study is a randomized, prospective study to evaluate the effectiveness of CPM in maintaining knee range of motion following open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of fractures around the knee

Conditions

• Intra-articular Knee Fractures

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Continuous Passive Motion	at least 48 hours of continuous passive motion following ORIF of fractures around the knee

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-12-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2008-01-11
• Last updated: 2013-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States