It was well known that the mirror therapy could decrease pain of upper-limb amputaed patients.
The mirror therapy is known to make a plastic change some parts of the brain percepting the painful body part and modulating its signal by feedback of visual information mirrored with the conresponding contra-lateral normal parts.
In this study, post-operative analgesic efficiency of the virtual reality using a mirror therapy after total knee arthroplasty will be evaluated.
This clinical trial will be performed in the form of prospective, single-blind (i.e. assessor-blind), parallel group, randomized (allocation ratio 1:1), single cohort.
Read more: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01979718?cond=%22Arthritis%22&lup_s=10/31/2013&lup_d=30
