NCT02790229

Postoperatively Treated Patients With Lower Limb Fracture With or Without an Anti-gravity Treadmill

Outcome of Patients After Lower Limb Fracture With Partial Weight Bearing Postoperatively Treated With or Without Anti-gravity Treadmill (Alter G®) During Six Weeks of Rehabilitation - a Bicentric Prospective Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Leipzig · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The presented study is designed to prove efficacy of the anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®) compared to a standard rehabilitation protocol in patients with tibial plateau or ankle fractures with six weeks of partial weight bearing.

Conditions

• Muscle Degeneration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®)	Patients in the experimental arm will be treated with manual lymphatic drainage, cryotherapy and a fixed protocol of training in an anti-gravity treadmill (alter G®). The protocol is designed parallel to standard physiotherapy with a frequency of two to three times a week with duration of about 20 minutes for six weeks.
OTHER	standardized physiotherapy	Patients in the control arm will be treated with manual lymphatic drainage, cryotherapy and 20 minutes of physiotherapy two to three times a week for six weeks. Physiotherapy will be done according to a standardized protocol.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-17
• Completion: 2019-06-17
• First posted: 2016-06-03
• Last updated: 2019-06-20

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany