Is a Knee Arthroscopy of Any Benefit for the Middleaged Patient With Meniscal Symptoms?
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01288768 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : February 2, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 3, 2013
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Chronic Meniscus Injury | Procedure: Knee arthroscopy | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 150 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Investigator) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Is a Knee Arthroscopy of Any Benefit for the Middleaged Patient With Meniscal Symptoms? |
Study Start Date : | March 2010 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | May 2013 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | May 2013 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Active Comparator: Arthroscopy
Knee arthroscopy + Exercise therapy
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Procedure: Knee arthroscopy
Knee arthroscopy within 4 weeks. |
No Intervention: Exercise therapy
Exercise therapy alone
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- KOOS (Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score); Pain subscale [ Time Frame: 12 month ]KOOS is a 42 item selfadministrated questionnaire with 5 separate subscales; pain, symptoms, activities of daily living (ADL), sport and recreation, quality of life (QoL). A change of approximately 10 is considered a clinical important difference (CID). At 12 month after the randomization the "arthroscopy+exercise therapy" arm will be compared to the "exercise therapy alone" arm.
- KOOS (Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score) [ Time Frame: 3 month ]
- Tegner activity scale [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
- KOOS (Symptoms, ADL, Sport/rec, QOL subscores) [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
- Functional tests [ Time Frame: 3 month ]Squatting (possible without pain, possible with pain, not possible). SOLEC ( one-legged stance) barefoot. Best time for three trials. Standing up from a chair on one leg, maximum repetitions in 30 sec. All test supervised by a physiotherapist.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 45 Years to 64 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- All (consecutive) patients referred to the orthopaedic department in Linköping for a suspected meniscal injury
- Age:45-64 years old
- No gonarthrosis (Ahlbäck=0) on standing radiographs
Exclusion Criteria:
- Rheumatic disease
- Patellofemoral arthrosis
- Fibromyalgia
- A knee or hip replacement
- A neurologic disorder including stroke
- A contraindication for an operation
- Catching or locking for more than 2 seconds more than once a week
- A permanent extension deficit
- Patients who cannot understand instructions in Swedish

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01288768
Sweden | |
Orthopaedic dept. University Hospital Linköping | |
Linköping, Sweden, 581 85 |
Principal Investigator: | Håkan Gauffin, MD PhD | Orthopaedic dept. University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden. |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Hakan Gauffin, MD PhD, University Hospital, Linkoeping |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01288768 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2010/6-31 |
First Posted: | February 2, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | May 3, 2013 |
Last Verified: | May 2013 |
Meniscal injury Knee arthroscopy Middleaged Functional outcome |