NCT06631014

Effect of Early Prosthetic Fitting in Patients With Below Knee Amputation

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Superior University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized control trial of 50 patients to identify the effect of early prosthetic fitting and physical rehabilitation. Previous studies show a significant impact of early induction of prosthetic rehabilitation of amputation.

Detailed description

Delayed rehabilitation may cause severe physical complications like joint contracture, muscle strength loss. Along with physical complications delayed in rehabilitation may also significantly affect psychological, economical and quality of daily life. Pakistan is a low income under developed country and major cause of amputation in here is traumatic amputation, that will effect mostly the younger age people. After missing a precious body part if the amputee comes along with such kind of physical and Psychological complications, his/her whole daily life will be effected. There is a keen need of implementation of global rules for physical rehabilitation of amputees and disables including the duration of induction of prosthetic as well as overall physical rehabilitation after surgical and traumatic removal of limbs.

Conditions

• Amputation of Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Early Rehab	The first group of 25 Patients was fitted with Prosthesis with in 6months of duration after amputation.
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	Delayed Rehab	The 2nd group of 25 patients that was fitted with Prosthesis after the time period of 6months after amputation. No physical rehab was done during this time period including physiotherapy and prosthetic treatment. Main aim was to check the significant impact of delayed rehabilitation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2024-10-08
• Last updated: 2024-10-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan