Feasibility of a randomized trial comparing exercise-based rehabilitation to no exercise-based rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty: DRAW-TKA hybrid 1 RCT.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Trials comparing the effectiveness of exercise-based rehabilitation against no exercise-based rehabilitation are needed, but their feasibility is unclear. The DRAW-TKA feasibility trial aimed to assess recruitment-, retention-, harms-, and procedural feasibility to inform a full-scale effectiveness trial.

Design

This pragmatic, multicentre, parallel, two-arm feasibility trial included participants scheduled for total knee arthroplasty due to osteoarthritis, aged ≥18, who could read and write Danish. Participants were recruited pre-operatively from two hospitals. At discharge, participants were encouraged to be physically active and randomised (one-to-one) to "Referral to exercise" (usual care) or "No exercise". Recruiters, outcome assessors, and intervention-delive

SUBMITTER: Gronfeldt BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12718181 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature