CClinicalTrials.gg
CompletedNCT03304561Updated Feb 5, 2018

The Effect of Contralateral Limb Training on Functional Outcomes in Patients With ACL Reconstruction

An interventional study of Traditional rehabilitation and Cross-over training in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, sponsored by Hacettepe University. Completed at 1 site in Turkey. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-02-05.

Sponsored by Hacettepe University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
36
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 45 Years
Sex
All
01

Study summary

Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction and one of the main focus of rehabilitation is to improve strenght of these muscles. With the strenghtening of the contralateral limb (cross-over training) we aimed to improve the strenght of the quadriceps

Read the detailed description

Returning to sport after ACL reconstruction is not at desired level among athletes. Quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenghts have important role in returning to sport after ACL reconstruction. Cross-over training is recomended during rehabilitation after ACL reconstrucion. Yet duration of the training, frequancy and type of exercise interention are not clear for the cross-over training. Ain of the study is to investigate the effects of cross-over training on muscle strenght

02

Conditions studied

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Keywords

  • knee
  • rehabilitation
  • ACL
  • Contralateral training
03

Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 45 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • having surgery of ACL reconstruction on one side
  • having no problem at least six month on the nonsrgical side
  • recieving the rehabilitation programme at hacettepe university, physiotherapy department

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • refusing to include to the study
  • having revision ACL surgery
  • addition of PCL or cartilage surgery addition to the ACL surgery
  • not participating to the rehabilidation program regularly over 3 month after sugery
04

Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
36 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    traditional rehabilitation

    patients in this groups is going to recieve traditional rehabilitation programme for 3 months after ACL recontsruction

    Other: Traditional rehabilitation

  • Experimental
    Cross-over training

    patients in this programme is going to recieve isokinetic exercise programme targeting unilvolved limb during rehabilitation. for the first 4 weeks after ACL reconstruction traditional rehabiitation programme is going to applied to the subjects. after 4 weeks, isokinetic strenghtening programme at 60˚/second angular velocity, between 0-90 degree knee flexion until 3 months after ACL reconstructon

    Other: Cross-over training

Interventions

  • OtherTraditional rehabilitation

    traditional ACL rehabilitation program

    Also known as: Standard post-operative ACL rehabilidation program

  • OtherCross-over training

    Cross-over training addition to the traditional rehabilidation

05

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. quadriceps and hamstring muscle strenght

    quadriceps strength change during the first, second and sixth months of the rehabilitation proccess after ACL reconstruction surgery. the strength measurements will conducted on isokinetic dynamometer (isomed 2000)

    Time frame: 6 month

Secondary outcomes

  1. functional outcomes

    one leg hop test, vertical jump test on the sixth month after surgery. the functional outcomes will be measured only at the sixth month after surgery.

    Time frame: 6 month

06

Study locations

1 site
  • Sports Physiotherapy Unit
    Ankara, 06100, Turkey
07

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

08

Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03304561
Lead sponsor
Hacettepe University
Responsible party
GULCAN HARPUT (Phd, Hacettepe University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Oct 9, 2017
Start date
Oct 1, 2016
Primary completion
Aug 1, 2017
Completion
Oct 30, 2017
Last update
Feb 5, 2018

Study contacts

volga tunay, PhD
study director · volgamel@yahoo.com

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

Not currently enrolling

This study is completed, as verified in Jan 2018. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.

Follow this study

Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.

Sign in to follow

Discussion

Questions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.

Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.

Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.

Start the discussion