Effects of a knee soft brace in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
- Conditions
- Knee osteoarthritis
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON28525
- Lead Sponsor
- VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brief Summary
The effect of a soft brace on pain and physcial function in knee osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analyses. Accepted for publication in Archives of Physcial Medicine and Rehabilitation.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 36
Patients from the Amsterdam Osteoarthritis cohort with a unilateral or bilateral diagnosis of knee OA according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) will be included. ACR criteria are age over 50 years, morning stiffness less than 30 minutes, crepitus on active motion, bony tenderness, or absence of palpable warmth of synovium. Inclusion criteria for the current study are knee osteoarthritis based on the ACR criteria, age between the 50 and 80 years old, Body Mass Index (BMI) between 20 and 30 kg/m2, a maximal score of 7 on the numeric rate scale (NRS) for pain intensity during the past two weeks and having the perception of an episode of buckling, shifting or giving way of the knee in the past three months.
Total knee replacement, rheumatoid arthritis or any other form of inflammatory arthritis (i.e., crystal arthropathy or septic arthritis).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain assessed with Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Activity limitations (Get Up and Go Test and 10-m walk test);<br /><br>Self-reported knee instability;<br /><br>Self-reported knee confidence