NCT02576028

Fascial Manipulation® Associated With Standard Care Versus Standard Post-surgical Care for Total Hip Arthroplasty

Fascial Manipulation® Associated With Standard Care Versus Standard Post-surgical Care for Total Hip Arthroplasty: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini di Seriate Bergamo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Post-surgical physiotherapy programs following to total hip arthroplasty (THA) show important differences between types and numbers of treatment sessions. Objectives are to investigate effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation when associated to a standard protocol of care.

Detailed description

Background. Post-surgical physiotherapy programs following to total hip arthroplasty (THA) show important differences between types and numbers of treatment sessions. Objectives are to investigate effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation when associated to a standard protocol of care. Methods. Fifty-one subjects operated with THA were randomized into two groups, both followed a standard protocol of care where two sessions were replaced with Fascial Manipulation in the study group. Functional outcomes measures collected before and after treatment and at the end of the rehabilitation program included Harris Hip Score, Time Up and Go test, articular range of motion and verbal numerical scale.

Conditions

• Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fascial Manipulation® (FM)	Fascial Manipulation® (FM) is a manual therapy that focus on the deep muscular fascia. This technique considers the fascia as a three-dimensional continuum. The mainstay of this manual technique lies in the identification of specific localised areas of the fascia, defined Center of Coordination (CC), where the gliding of the subcutis should be preserved to avoid biomechanical in-coordination of the surrounding muscles. The method is performed by applying a deep friction over the CCs that result more altered at the clinical palpation
OTHER	standard active exercises	two sessions of 45 minutes of active exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2015-10-15
• Last updated: 2015-10-22