Fast-track Rehabilitation After Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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In the last years, a lot of surgical fast track programs (SFTP) have been created and developed. This is due to the steady growing number of interventions on knee and hip; after the surgical treatment, a period of physical rehabilitation (PR) is established to be useful and effective, it usually takes 2-3 weeks. The recovery of strength, range of motion (ROM), independence, the reduction of pain and disability are the aims of PR. With the SFTP and a specific rehabilitation program named fast track rehabilitation (FTR) these times can be reduced. First of all because the length of stay (LOS) it's also caused by organizational problems of the hospitals, not only for the factors related to the patient. It's already been demonstrated that an early mobilization decreases the risk of thromboembolic complications and of pain, furthermore an early rehabilitation increase the patient autonomy and reduces the lost of residual abilities. Moreover a PR program studied for fast track patient will reduce minimum by a 50% the LOS in hospital, decreasing so the sanitary efforts that are always a problem for all the countries. The aim of this study is therefore to propose a fast track rehabilitation program based on an 8 days program for hip and knee arthroplasty being operated with an SFTP.

Official Title
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Fast-track Rehabilitation After Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty: an Observational Prospective Case-control Study

Conditions
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Knee Arthroplasty, Hip Arthroplasty

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: fast-track rehabilitation
* Other: standard care rehabilitation


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: adult people (>18 years), both sex, admitted for elective total knee or hip arthroplasty, with a clinical stability (Hb>9 g/l). Exclusion Criteria: the presence of pain measured with NRS (NRS>4) rheumatoid arthritis, past surgery cancer neurological and psychiatric disorders dementia with Minimental Test<24 pregnancy participation in the other clinical studies.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| study group<br>fast-track rehabilitation | Other: fast-track rehabilitation<br> <br> |
| control group<br>standard care rehabilitation | Other: standard care rehabilitation<br> <br> |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| International Knee Society Score |  | Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day | 
| Merle D'Aubigne' scale |  | Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Barthel Index |  | Change from Baseline fast-track rehabilitation at 8th and 15th day | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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fast-track rehabilitation, fast-track surgery