NCT01762371

Khalifa Acute Effects

Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Acute Effects From Khalifa's Therapy at Patients With Fully Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL).

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Graz · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary hypothesis is that Khalifa's therapy has different acute effects in various organ systems i.e. proprioceptive, neuro-muscular, endogenous dopamine system, etc. These effects might indicate the pathway of the therapy.

Detailed description

According to our previous study that evaluated the efficacy of Khalifa's therapy the investigators have seen that the therapy has acute effects which resulted in better knee function and later even in better healing of the ACL injury. This study should clear exactly which effects and pathways are involved in the therapy from multiple (interdisciplinary) point of views. Therefore the investigators will measure parameters that might be associated with this special technique directly before and after the therapy.

Conditions

• Totally Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament in the Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Khalifa Therapy	One hour of Khalifa's therapy which is specially applied pressure to the skin.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2014-02-01
• First posted: 2013-01-07
• Last updated: 2015-05-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria