Cold Therapy and Early Exercise Program for Enhanced Recovery After Knee Replacement Surgery: Effects on Pain, Swelling, Range of Motion, and Walking

The Effect of an Early Exercise Program with cryotherapy on Range of Motion, Pain, Swelling, and Gait in Patients with Total Knee Arthroplasty

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

CRIS

Registry ID

KCT0009200

Enrollment

Registered

2024-02-26

Start date

2021-08-02

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-03-04

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Medical Device : A pre-test will be performed on all study subjects before the start of the experiment, and a total of 46 patients will be randomly divided into 23 experimental patients in the cryothe

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The inclusion criteria for the study are patients who had undergone total knee replacement surgery due to degenerative arthritis, no neurological impairment that would affect their ability to perform the exercise program, no postoperative inflammation or other adverse events, and patients aged 60 years or older who could adequately understand the methods and objectives of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria for the study include patients with back or lower extremity damage or surgery in the past 2 years, patients with a history of surgery on the knee joint prior to total knee replacement, and patients with circulatory disturbance or allergies to cold.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Knee joint range of motion;Knee pain;Knee Edema	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
10m walking test (gait speed)	—

Countries

Korea, Republic of

Contacts

Public ContactJongEun Yim

Sahmyook University

jeyim@syu.ac.kr+82-2-3399-1635

Outcome results