NCT05459766

Effects of a Perioperative Action Observation and Motor Imagery Training in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Istituto Clinico Humanitas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study is aimed at investigating the effects of action observation and motor imagery training in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty. Fifty participants will be enrolled during hospital admission and randomized into 2 groups (AO+MI and CTRL groups). AO+MI will undergo 12-minute AO+MI intervention for 3 days (preoperative day, first and second postoperartive days), whereas CTRL group will undergo usual care. At baseline, first and third postoperative days, participants will be assessed for mobility, pain, range of motion, quadriceps acrivation failure and patient's bady-pain representation by a blinded operator.

Conditions

• Total Knee Arthoplasty

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Action observation and motor imagery	Observation and imagination of functional tasks that will be performed during the postoperative rehabilitation program.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual care	Participants will be educated about the postoperative rehabilitation program

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-31
• Completion: 2023-01-31
• First posted: 2022-07-15
• Last updated: 2022-07-19