NCT05374382

A Prehab Strengthening Program Prior to ACL Surgery on Lower Limb Structure and Function

The Effects of a Lower Limb Strengthening Training Program During Prehabilitation Prior to ACL Surgery on Lower Limb Structure and Function : a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Université de Nantes · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Atrophy and weakness are ubiquitous after a ACL rupture and associated with a worsened long-term recovery of individual capacities, despite surgery and rehabilitation. Preoperative rehabilitation (prehab) is believed to prepare patients for surgery and post-operative rehabilitation. However, prehab programs are highly variable, and do not always aim to develop/maintain neuromuscular parameters. The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of a lower limb strengthening training program during prehab prior to ACL Surgery on lower limb structure and function.

Detailed description

Recruited participants will be randomly allocated to one of the three groups of participants constituted in this study. The two first groups will receive prehabilitation prior to ACL reconstruction (differing in program type). All participants will receive standardized post-surgery rehabilitation (based on international recommandations).

Conditions

• ACL Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strengthening	3x/w, 9 wks supervised strengthening program, during prehabilitation to ACL surgery
BEHAVIORAL	Conventional	Participants received a 9-weeks conventional prehabilitation program (targeting pain knee mobility) before ACL reconstruction, followed by a standardized post-operative rehabilitation program

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2024-09-01
• First posted: 2022-05-16
• Last updated: 2022-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France