NCT05030662

Walking Stick Exercise in Patients Underwent Total Knee Arthroplasty

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the effect of "hiking poles exercise" on lower extremity muscular strength, knee range of motion, and quality of life in elderly patients underwent total knee arthroplasty

Detailed description

This is a longitudinal-experimental study. The data collection and analysis are in a single-blind manner. The study will be undertaken in the Department Orthopaedics of En Chu Kong hospital (approximate 500-bed regional teaching hospital). All patients who meet the inclusion criteria are admitted for primary total knee arthroplasty and assigned to control group or intervention group randomly. The 44 patients in the control group received routine guidance of " Rehabilitation and precautions for artificial knee replacement ". In addition to the routine guidance, the 44 patients in the intervention group received educations of " hiking poles exercise " on the day before surgery and before discharge, as well as a follow-up call at least once a week after discharge.

Conditions

• Arthroplasty
• Replacement
• Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Walking stick exercise	1. Education of walking stick exercise by research nurses twice before discharge (on the day before surgery and before discharge) 2. The video clip of "walking stick exercise" is available to the patients. 3. The research nurses encourage our patients to keep rehabilitation by phone calls once a week after discharge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-01
• Primary completion: 2022-05-31
• Completion: 2023-10-31
• First posted: 2021-09-01
• Last updated: 2023-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan