NCT05655429

Physical Therapy vs Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy

Physical Therapy vs Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy on the Knee Function of Metabolic Syndrome Patients With Degenerative Meniscus Lesions

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shenzhen People's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose was to assess knee function outcomes between physical therapy and arthroscopic partial menisectomy(APM) for Metabolic syndrome(MetS) patients with degenerative meniscus lesions(DMLs) during 12 month follow up.

Detailed description

Metabolic syndrome were diagnosed with abdominal obesity, insulin resistance with or without glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia or elevated blood pressure and widely prevalence all around the world.MetS patients were always correlated with knee osteoarthritis or cartilage volume loss. For MetS patients with DMLs, whether physical therapy was non-inferior to APM in knee function and MetS components was unknown.

Conditions

• Knee Medial Meniscus Tears

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	physical therapy	The exercise intervention included aerobic exercises and resistance exercise, flexibility exercises about 150 minutes for ≥2 day per week.
PROCEDURE	arthroscopic partial meniscectomy	Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-15
• Primary completion: 2023-08-02
• Completion: 2023-08-10
• First posted: 2022-12-19
• Last updated: 2023-03-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China