The Effect of Balance Training Using a Dynamometric Platform in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

Launched by ANKARA ETLIK CITY HOSPITAL · Jul 20, 2025

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This clinical trial is studying whether adding special balance training using a device called the Tecnobody ProKin system can help people recover better after total knee replacement surgery, which is often done to relieve pain from severe knee arthritis. Although this surgery usually reduces pain and improves how the knee moves, many patients still have trouble with balance and walking afterward. The study will compare standard physical therapy alone to physical therapy combined with this balance training to see which helps patients improve their balance, leg strength, walking, and body awareness more effectively.

People who might join this study are adults who had knee replacement surgery within the last two years and are able to put full weight on their operated leg about three weeks after surgery. Participants need to be patients at a specific rehabilitation clinic in Ankara and willing to take part in the study. Those with certain health issues, like problems with both knees replaced, recent physical therapy, serious infections, or other conditions that could affect treatment, won’t be eligible. If you join, you can expect to take part in balance and movement tests using special equipment, along with your usual physical therapy, to see if this new training helps with your recovery.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty within the past 2 years and are hospitalized at the Orthopedic Rehabilitation Clinic of Ankara Etlik City Hospital, Physical Therapy Hospital.
• • Able to fully bear weight on the operated lower extremity in the third postoperative week.
• • Willingness to participate and signing of the written informed consent form.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Bilateral knee arthroplasty
• • Age under 18 years
• • Receiving treatment at a physical therapy unit within the first 2 weeks after knee arthroplasty
• • Presence of significant visual or hearing impairment, active infection
• • Clinically unstable condition
• • Presence of central nervous system lesions (e.g., stroke, multiple sclerosis)
• • Presence of malignancy
• • Presence of a fracture in the lower extremity
• • Presence of any condition that would prevent participation in the treatment
• • History of lumbar disc surgery
• • History of previous surgery in the lower extremity
• • Presence of advanced osteoarthritis in the non-operated lower extremity