NCT05967637

The Effect of Whole-Body Vibration Treatment Before Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study's objective is to investigate the effects of whole-body vibration therapy administered before surgery on various factors related to patients who undergo total knee arthroplasty. These factors include pain, swelling, skin temperature, normal joint movement, knee joint position sense, knee extensor muscle strength, functional status, and patient satisfaction.

Detailed description

The study will include participants aged 50-80 who are planning to undergo total knee arthroplasty. According to the sample size analysis, a total of 40 people will be included in this study. The enrolled participants will be randomly assigned to one of two parallel groups: the whole-body vibration group or the sham whole-body vibration group. Both groups will receive standard patient education and exercise training.The experimental group will receive whole-body vibration along with exercise on the whole-body vibration device, while the control group (sham group) will receive sham vibration on the same device. All participants will receive treatment for a total of 5 days, one session per day.

Conditions

• Whole-body Vibration
• Arthropathy of Knee
• Swelling/ Edema

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Whole body vibration	The vibration will be applied for 10 minutes (30 seconds rest, 30 seconds training, 10 reps) in total with a low frequency (20 HZ) and low amplitude (2mm). Participants will be asked to stand in a squatting position by semi-flexing (30°) their knees during the 30-second vibration period.
OTHER	Sham-Whole body vibration	The sham-whole body vibration treatment will follow the same procedures with the vibration machine off.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-01
• Primary completion: 2024-08-01
• Completion: 2024-10-01
• First posted: 2023-08-01
• Last updated: 2025-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)