NCT02760784

Medium Term Outcome of Nonoperative Treatment After Achilles Tendon Rupture.

Medium Term Outcome of Nonoperative Dynamic Treatment of Acute Achilles Tendon Rupture: the Influence of Early Weight-bearing on Clinical Outcome: a Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A total of 56 patients completed a previous study regarding non-operative treatment for acute achilles tendon rupture. This study consists of an additional follow up after 4-5 years depending on original date of injury.

Detailed description

30 patients suffering from acute Achilles tendon rupture was originally randomized to each arm, and followed up after 6 and 12 months. Of these a total of 56 patients was included in the final analysis, and invited to participate in this additional follow-up, 4-5 years after their original injury. Originally patients was monitored using: ATRS questionnaires, ATRA: Achilles Tendon Resting Angle, Heel Raise Work: number of lifts, lift height and total work, and tests of strength and stiffness in the ankle using a kinetic dynamometer.

Conditions

• Achilles Tendon Rupture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Early weight bearing	The intervention implies that the selected patients, will be allowed to bear weight on the injured leg form day 1 while wearing the orthosis, in contrast to the control group, who must wait 6 weaks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2016-05-04
• Last updated: 2017-08-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark