Status:

COMPLETED

Physiotherapy and Therapeutic Education on Patients With Pain Catastrophism Scheduled for a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Lead Sponsor:

University of Barcelona

Collaborating Sponsors:

Hector Beltran-Alacreu, PhD

Conditions:

Osteo Arthritis Knee

Knee Arthroplasty

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether adding a treatment using pain neuroscience education (PNE) and multimodal physiotherapy to usual care, in subjects with knee osteoarthritis and pain catast...

Detailed Description

The prevalence of TKA has increased dramatically during the last two decades, its popularity can be attributed to its evident success regarding pain improvement, deformity correction and disability re...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • To have sufficient Spanish or Catalan reading, writing and speaking skills to comprehend all explanations and to complete the assessment tools.
  • Be able to provide the informed consent.
  • Be scheduled to undergo in a total knee arthroplasty.
  • Primary knee osteoarthritis diagnosis.
  • Score more than 20 points in the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS).
  • Score more than 4 over 10 on pain Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
  • Patients older than 18 years old.

Exclusion

  • Patients scheduled to undergo in a total knee arthroplasty because of prostheses replacement, tumor, infection or fracture.
  • Patients scheduled to undergo in a bilateral total knee arthroplasty.
  • Patients that will need another total knee or hip replacement surgery in less than a year regarding the current intervention.
  • Patients scheduled for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.
  • Patients with other pathologies with characteristic features of a central sensitization. (i.e. Fibromyalgia)
  • Co-existing other inflammatory or rheumatic conditions (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus or ankylosing spondylitis)
  • Co-existing other mental condition and/or major depression.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 18 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 14 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03847324

Start Date

September 18 2019

End Date

March 14 2023

Last Update

May 11 2023

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Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 08916