NCT05929118

The Effect of Aquatic Rehabilitation on Knee Function in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Patients.

Completed NA Last updated 5 January 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Aquatic Rehabilitation in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in 20 participants. Completed in 3 February 2023.

Timeline

1 November 2020

Primary endpoint
15 December 2022

3 February 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Beijing Sport University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	20
Start date	1 November 2020
Primary completion	15 December 2022
Estimated completion	3 February 2023
Sites	1 location across China

Drugs / interventions tested

• Aquatic Rehabilitation
• Land-based Rehabilitation

Conditions studied

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction — all drugs for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction →
• Hydrotherapy — all drugs for Hydrotherapy →
• Gait — all drugs for Gait →
• Muscle Function — all drugs for Muscle Function →

Sponsor

Beijing Sport University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 50, any sex, with Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction or Hydrotherapy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the applicability and effectiveness of an aquatic rehabilitation training program with a conventional land-based rehabilitation program in terms of lower extremity biomechanics and knee function in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) patients. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Does aquatic rehabilitation accelerate the recovery of gait symmetry and muscle function in patients after ACLR？
* Previous studies have not uncovered the training characteristics of aquatic rehabilitation, which allow for training movements that cannot be performed on land, and it is unknown whether these different training movement characteristics are more effective for patients with ACLR.

Participants were randomly divided into an aquatic rehabilitation group (AR) and a land-based rehabilitation group (LR), and each group performed 70-90 minutes of training per session for a total of 6 sessions. This included warm-up activities, mobility training, strength training, functional exercises, and finishing activities. Each training session was conducted 1-2 days apart, 2-3 sessions per week, and the training was completed within 2-3 weeks.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.