Formal vs. Home-Based Physical Therapy After Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty

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Conditions studied: Osteoarthritis

In brief

To determine whether home-based physical therapy (HBPT) is not clinically inferior to formal outpatient physical therapy (OPT) after hospital discharge of patients undergoing a unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02883998

Run by

Rush University Medical Center

People needed

52

Starts

2016-08-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Scheduled for a unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

You may not qualify if…

• Require inpatient physical therapy beyond post-operative day one
• < 18 years old
• Decline to participate

Where it is running

• Rush University Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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