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Effect of Foam Rolling After Total Knee Arthroplasty

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of foam rolling in patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty on pain, knee mobility, leg muscle strength, the ability to sense joint position, fear of movement, walking, balance, and the ability to perform daily activities. A total of 26 patients, with 13 patients in each group, will be included in the study. Participants will be randomly assigned to two groups. One group will receive the routine rehabilitation program, while the other group will receive foam rolling in addition to the routine rehabilitation program. Foam rolling and rehabilitation exercises will be taught at the Dokuz Eylül University Orthopedics and Traumatology Outpatient Clinic, and you will be asked to perform these exercises at home. The foam rolling group will perform foam rolling 6 days per week, 2 sets per day, with 3 repetitions of 60 seconds each. The control group will not perform foam rolling and will follow the routine rehabilitation program. The standard rehabilitation program will consist of strengthening exercises in different directions for the entire leg, range-of-motion exercises, stretching exercises, and walking exercises. You will be asked to perform the exercises for 3 sets of 10 repetitions per day. The assessments in the study will be performed at the second postoperative week (test 1), sixth postoperative week (test 2), and fourteenth postoperative week (test 3). These time points are also times when you would normally visit your doctor for routine follow-up; therefore, you will not be expected to make any additional hospital visits for the study. The study will continue for 1 year, and each patient will be followed for 14 weeks. Pain will be assessed using a single-question questionnaire. Walking, functional level, and leg muscle strength will be assessed using short performance tests involving sitting-to-standing and walking activities, as well as a questionnaire. Knee joint range of motion and proprioception will be assessed by measuring the angles of your knee using a ruler-like plastic device. Fear of movement will be assessed using a short questionnaire. All assessments will take no more than 20 minutes. The results will be determined by examining whether there are differences in these measurements between the different assessment time points.

Stress Ball and Hand Holding on Pain After Knee Arthroplasty

Pain after Total Knee Arthroplasty. (TKA) is an important problem When pain is not controlled, it can negatively affect the patients; mobility level.This research; A randomized controlled experimental design was planned to examine the effects of stress ball and hand holding on pain and mobility levels in patients who underwent Continuous Passive Movement (CPM) after Total knee arthroplasty.The study was planned to be conducted between 03.10.2024 and 09.07.2025 on patients who who had total knee arthroplasty. surgery at the Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic.Since no study similar to our study design was found in the literature, the sample size of the study was calculated as 22 patients in each arm with Cohen\* effect sizes for VAS, 3 arms, 2 repeated measurements, a medium effect size of 0.25 effect, 95% power and 5% type 1 error level.Considering that there may be data loss in the study, the sample size was increased by 20%, and a total of 78 patients, 26 in each arm.Assignment of patients to stress ball, hand holding and control arm using block randomization method,Determining by drawing lots which letters will represent the stress ball, hand holding and control arms as A, B, C,The blocks were planned to be created by a statistician."Stress ball intervention" to the stress ball, "Hand holding intervention" will be made to the hand holding arm, "No intervention other than standard maintenance" will be made to the control arm during CPM.The implementation of the study will be carried out by the researcher R.S. and will be blinded to random assignment.On the 1st and 2nd days after total knee prosthesis, exercises are performed for 30 minutes with continuous passive movement.Considering this situation and the literature, the pain levels of the patients will be evaluated a total of 4 times on the 1st and 2nd days, before the CPM exercise, at the 5th minute, 15th minute and at the end of the exercise (30th minute); Mobility levels will be evaluated at this time, as the patient is mobilized within 1-2 hours after exercise.It was planned to collect the data with the "Patient Questionnaire Form, "Pain Assessment Form", "Patient Mobility Scale" and Observer Mobility Scale".Permission to use the scales was obtained via e-mail. Ethics committee and institution permissions were obtained to start the study.It was planned to obtain informed consent from patients before the application.Data will be compared using Pearson chi-square, Fisher exact test, One-way ANOVA and repeated measures ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis test.It was planned to obtain informed consent from the patients before the study.The study is limited by the inclusion of patients with ASA I and II who underwent total knee prosthesis with a single physician and a single surgical technique at the Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic, regardless of whether they had chronic diseases.The study results can be used in planning the pain management of patients.It is thought that complications that may occur due to delayed mobilization and immobility can be prevented in patients whose pain is reduced.