Walking Stick Exercise in Patients Underwent Total Knee Arthroplasty

Launched by NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES · Aug 31, 2021

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This is a longitudinal-experimental study. The data collection and analysis are in a single-blind manner. The study will be undertaken in the Department Orthopaedics of En Chu Kong hospital (approximate 500-bed regional teaching hospital). All patients who meet the inclusion criteria are admitted for primary total knee arthroplasty and assigned to control group or intervention group randomly. The 44 patients in the control group received routine guidance of " Rehabilitation and precautions for artificial knee replacement ". In addition to the routine guidance, the 44 patients in the interve...

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Eligibility criteria

• • Minimum Age: 60 years Maximum Age: 85years Gender-Based: All Accepts Healthy Volunteers:No
• Criteria:
• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age between 60 and 85 years
• • Informed consent
• • Receipt of elective unilateral primary knee arthroplasty surgery.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Non-degenerative arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis, or traumatic arthritis
• • Patients receiving rehabilitation simultaneously
• • Patients with other musculoskeletal or neurological problems, including fractures, Parkinsonism, cerebrovascular events, or patients with multiple comorbidities
• • Cancer patients receive chemotherapy
• • Patients with the peri-operative complication that has an adverse effect on outcomes,for example: intra-operative fractures, thromboembolism, peri-operative infections, or phlebitis