NCT02262988

Thigh Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondren Orthopedic Group L.L.P. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the cause of thigh pain after knee replacement. Different surgical techniques will be used to help determine the cause of thigh pain, and all surgical techniques are accepted and produce good clinical results.

Detailed description

This research study will be a randomized study in which patients volunteer participate. "Randomized" means the patients who received the new treatment are chosen at random, similar to flipping a coin. Several factors have been identified as possible sources of thigh pain after surgery: use of a tourniquet around the thigh to control bleeding during surgery; use of an intramedullary rod during surgery or quadriceps muscle strain. Participants will be randomized into surgical groups that use/do not use a tourniquet and use/do not use intramedullary rod during surgery. A subset of participants in all surgical groups will have a MRI to look for quadriceps muscle strain.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis, Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Total knee replacement	Total knee replacement (TKA)

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2021-03-01
• First posted: 2014-10-13
• Last updated: 2022-06-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States