NCT02825706

Educational Physiotherapy in Haemophilia

Effectiveness of an Educational Physiotherapy and Home Exercises Program in Adult Patients With Hemophilia: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Real Fundación Victoria Eugenia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Although arthropathy is a serious problem in patients with hemophilia due to the associated morbidity and incapacity, to the best of the investigators knowledge, no studies have looked at the effect of educational physiotherapy for its clinical improvement. This contribution presents the results of educational physiotherapy program applied for 15 weeks with home exercises - in patients with hemophilic arthropathy. After treatment, experimental group showed improved a significant reduction of pain, and best quality of life al illness behaviour. During treatment no patient showed elbow haemarthrosis, which underlines the safety of this physiotherapy program.

Conditions

• Haemophilia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Educational physiotherapy group	20 patients with hemophilia were randomly allocated to an educational intervention or to a control group. The educational intervention was performed every two weeks during 15-week and home exercises were performed once a day, 6 days a week, in the same time

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-02-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2015-04-01
• First posted: 2016-07-07
• Last updated: 2016-07-07