NCT00971451

Quadriceps Function Prior to Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Virginia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients who are diagnosed with an isolated tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and scheduled for arthroscopic reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft will be recruited to participate. All subjects will be invited to participate in 2 weeks (2 supervised sessions per week) prior to their surgery. Each session will include supervised therapeutic exercises. Subjects will be randomly assigned to receive continuous transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) during each session or knee joint cryotherapy prior to each exercise session. The investigators will measure quadriceps function before and after this 2-week intervention (both sessions occur prior to reconstruction surgery). This study will also have a true control group that will not receive either exercise of modality intervention. The investigators will collect subjective and objective outcomes data at regularly scheduled post-operative visits.

Conditions

• Rupture of Anterior Cruciate Ligament

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cryotherapy	20 minutes of knee joint cryotherapy - ice bag application
OTHER	TENS	continuous use of TENS during the exercise session

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2009-09-03
• Last updated: 2011-03-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States