Weight-bearing Recommendation After Replacement of the Hip or Knee Joint

PHASE1/PHASE2CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

352

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 31, 2002

Primary Completion Date

January 31, 2007

Study Completion Date

January 31, 2007

Conditions
Osteoarthritis
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Recommend full weight-bearing

The full weight-bearing group is trained in 4-point gait with crutches and is recommended to put as much weight as tolerated on the leg on which surgery has been performed, immediately after surgery

BEHAVIORAL

Recommend parital weight-bearing

The partial weight-bearing group is trained in 3-point gait with crutches and is instructed to limit weight-bearing of the affected leg to 20kg for a period of six-weeks. Scales are used to train these participants not to exceed 20kg

Trial Locations (4)

22880

Wedel Hospital, Department of Surgery, Wedel

23538

University of Schleswig-Holstein Medical Center, Lübeck Campus, Lübeck

24105

University of Schleswig-Holstein Medical Center, Kiel Campus, Kiel

24351

Ostseeklinik Damp, Department I of Orthopedic Surgery, Damp

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Verein zur Förderung der Erforschung und Bekämpfung rheumatischer Erkrankungen Bad Bramstedt e.V

OTHER

collaborator

Landesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Landesversicherungsanstalt Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

UNKNOWN

collaborator

Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe

OTHER

lead

Verein zur Förderung der Rehabilitationsforschung in Schleswig-Holstein

OTHER

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