40
Participants
Start Date
June 30, 2012
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2015
Study Completion Date
October 31, 2015
Conventional physiotherapy
Patients in this study group will attend physiotherapeutic exercise sessions of one hour three times a week for six weeks. The sessions consist of aerobic and muscle strengthening as well as coordination exercises. Patients will practice activities of daily living. The goals of these exercises are to improve joint stability, optimize knee and ankle proprioception, and advance neuromuscular innervation of the lower extremity and thereby suppress pathologic motion patterns. This should lead to optimized mobility, increased stability, and thus more endogenous analgesia of the affected joint
University Hospital, Cologne
University of Cologne
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