Progressive Collective-exercise Program on the Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT01850862 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CEP-UFRN 530/11
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The investigators hypothesized that an eight-week collective group exercise program would improve pain, quality of life and functional capacity in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) compared with those receiving no exercise intervention.

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pain

  pain assessed by Visual Analogue Scale

  Eight weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• quality of life

  Eight weeks

Other Outcomes (1)

• functional capacity

  Eight weeks

Study Arms (2)

Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA

EXPERIMENTAL

Collective exercises program for patients with osteoarthritis and orientation about this disease

Other: Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA

Control group (without exercise)

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Orientation about osteoarthritis disease but without any exercise program

Other: Orientation (without exercise)

Interventions

Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA OTHER

Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA

Orientation (without exercise) OTHER

Orientation about osteoarthritis disease but without any exercise program

Control group (without exercise)

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 50 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• symptomatic and moderate to severe medical diagnostic of KOA.
• Subjects with normal cognitive functions and no restriction to perform physical activities were recruited from the hospital's KOA database and eligible to participate if they had presented: Lequesne questionnaire criteria (5 - 13.5), knee pain score between 3 and 7 (on a 0 -10 Visual Analogue Scale), stable doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and no regular physical exercise or use of canes in the months prior to the study.

You may not qualify if:

• Symptomatic heart disease; symptomatic disease of the lower limbs (other than KOA); symptomatic lung disease; severe systemic disease; severe psychiatric illness; regular physical exercise (three or more times per week for at least 3 months); drug injection in the knee in the previous 3 months; physiotherapy on the lower limbs in the previous 3 months and absence in two consecutive training sessions or three nonconsecutive sessions

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte: lead

Study Sites (1)

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, 59072-970, Brazil

Location

Related Publications (1)

• da Silva FS, de Melo FE, do Amaral MM, Caldas VV, Pinheiro IL, Abreu BJ, Vieira WH. Efficacy of simple integrated group rehabilitation program for patients with knee osteoarthritis: Single-blind randomized controlled trial. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(3):309-22. doi: 10.1682/JRRD.2014.08.0199.

  PMID: 26237073 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Osteoarthritis, Knee

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Osteoarthritis; Arthritis; Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Rheumatic Diseases

Study Officials

• Wouber Hérickson de Brito Vieira, PhD

  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Bento João Abreu, PhD

  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: PhD

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 4, 2013
• First Posted: May 10, 2013
• Study Start: June 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2011
• Study Completion: November 1, 2011
• Last Updated: May 16, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-05

Locations

BR (1)