Accelerated Rehabilitation After Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Surgery

Overview

The aim of this study was to prospectively evaluate the efficacy of an accelerated rehabilitation regime for patients undergoing early arthroscopic stabilization for first-time anterior dislocation in terms of clinical outcome, return to play data and recurrence rates.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: Single (Participant)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: March 15, 2018

Detailed Description

Traditional rehabilitation regimes post arthroscopic stabilization commonly stipulate a period of immobilization of between 2 weeks and 6 weeks.This is apparently embedded in practice and is reportedly based on tissue healing times. However early mobilisation would allow good clinical results in terms of clinical outcome, return to play data and recurrence rates.

Interventions

  • Other: Accelerated rehabilitation
    • advances in arthroscopic surgery have resulted in biomechanically stronger repairs that might allow for accelerated rehabilitation protocols and hence faster return to daily living activities and scapular control
  • Other: Delayed rehabilitation
    • Patients were not allowed to start rehabilitation programme first three weeks after surgery.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: accelerated rehabilitation after surgery
    • patients were included progressive rehabilitation programme first week after arthroscopic bankart repair consisting of passive shoulder range of motion exercises, scapular retraction exercises. The exercise programme progressed from active range of motion exercises to resistive and plyometric shoulder exercises. Patients were followed for six months.
  • Experimental: delayed rehabilitation after surgery
    • Patients were not allowed to start passive shoulder exercises first three weeks after surgery. Patients were included progressive rehabilitation programme third week after arthroscopic bankart repair consisting of passive shoulder range of motion exercises, scapular retraction exercises. The exercise programme progressed from active range of motion exercises to resistive and plyometric shoulder exercises. Patients were followed for six months.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • 3 Dimensional Kinematic Analysis
    • Time Frame: at sixth months after surgery
    • Scapular kinematic measurements were conducted by using three-dimensional electromagnetic system (Motion Monitor® Skeleton Analysis System, Innovative Sports Training Inc, Chicago, USA). The three-dimensional electromagnetic system consists of motion monitor software, transmitters and sensors integrated into this software (Flock of Birds System).

Secondary Measures

  • Pain Assessment
    • Time Frame: at sixth months after surgery
    • Pain was assessed by using numeric Visual Analogue Scale at rest, at night and during daily living activities. In numeric Visual Analogue Scale 0 represents “no pain”, 10 represents “unbearable pain”
  • First Functional Assessment
    • Time Frame: at sixth months after surgery
    • 1. The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire (DASH) is a 30-item questionnaire that looks at the ability of a patient to perform certain upper extremity activities and that measures an individual’s ability to complete tasks, absorb forces, and severity of symptoms.This questionnaire is a self-report questionnaire that patients can rate difficulty and interference with daily life on a 5 point Likert scale.DASH Questionnaire will be calculated by using DASH Scoring Formula
  • Second Functional Assessment
    • Time Frame: at sixth months after surgery
    • 2. The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Shoulder Score (ASES) is used to measure shoulder pain and functional limitations.The scores range from 0 to 100 and the highest score represents improvement in shoulder function after treatment interventions and to check the patient’s ability to tolerate or perform the activities of daily living.
  • Third Functional Assessment
    • Time Frame: at sixth months after surgery
    • 3. Constant-Murley Shoulder Score (CONSTANT) is a 100-points scale composed of individual parameters.These parameters define the level of pain and the ability to carry out the normal daily activities of the patient.The Constant Score was introduced to determine the functionality after the treatment of a shoulder injury.The test is divided into four subscales: pain (15 points), activities of daily living (20 points), strength (25 points) and range of motion (40 points).The higher the score, the higher the quality of the function.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patient were included based on their history of a clear mechanism of injury resulting in traumatic anterior dislocation, with clear evidence of labral injury confirmed on magnetic resonance imaging. Exclusion Criteria:

  • patients with inflammatory, autoimmune, endocrine or kidney diseases – Recurrence – Bony Bankart Lesion

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 55 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Hacettepe University
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Irem Duzgun, associate professor – Hacettepe University

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