NCT05470244

TENS in Post-operative Total Knee Arthroplasty Recovery and Intra-venous Analgesics Requirement

Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation in Post-operative Total Knee Arthroplasty Recovery and Intra-venous Analgesics Requirement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Lahore · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 31 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is among the major advancements for the treatment of knee pain and improvement of physical function when conservative management fails to comply with. The success of this arthoplasty results in more functional mobility and better quality of life. However, management of pain after TKA in post-operative period is a big challenge to deal.

Detailed description

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation is a cost effective, non-invasive electrotherapeutic modality used in alleviating pain in both acute and chronic conditions affecting neuromusculoskeletal system of the body.

Conditions

• Total Knee Arthoplasty
• Knee Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Routine Physical Therapy and Intra-venous analgesic regimen	ROM Exercises will be performed and analgesics including the NSAIDs and narcotics as per prescription of surgeon/physician will be given to all subjects
OTHER	Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation along with Routine Physical Therapy and Intra-venous analgesic regimen	High frequency stimulations via Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Simulator will be applied. ROM Exercises will be performed and analgesics including the NSAIDs and narcotics as per prescription of surgeon/physician will be given to all subjects

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-13
• Primary completion: 2022-12-15
• Completion: 2022-12-15
• First posted: 2022-07-22
• Last updated: 2023-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan