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Clinical Trials/ACTRN12612000460808
ACTRN12612000460808
Completed
Phase 2

In people with knee osteoarthritis, does manual therapy in addition to exercise therapy reduce pain and disability, compared with exercise therapy alone, and do booster sessions enhance the effectiveness compared with no booster sessions.

niversity of Otago0 sites75 target enrollmentApril 24, 2012

Overview

Phase
Phase 2
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
niversity of Otago
Enrollment
75
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
April 24, 2012
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 40 years of age or older
  • Meet the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) clinical criteria for a diagnosis of knee OA. The ACR clinical criteria for knee OA includes knee pain plus 3 of the following 6 criteria:
  • age \> 50 years,
  • morning stiffness of \< 30 minutes,
  • crepitus on active movement,
  • tenderness of the bony margins of the joint,
  • bony enlargement of the joint noted on exam,
  • lack of palpable warmth of the synovium. Based on this criteria, a subject who is less than 50 years but has knee pain and 3 of the other 5 criteria would also be classified as having knee OA.

Exclusion Criteria

  • do not meet the ACR clinical criteria for knee OA,
  • are scheduled for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery,
  • have undergone TJA surgery on any lower extremity joint,
  • exhibit uncontrolled hypertension (i.e. individuals not currently taking medication for hypertension whose systolic blood pressure is greater than 140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mm Hg at rest),
  • have complaints of low back pain or other lower extremity joint pain that affects function at the time of recruitment,
  • have a history of neurological disorders that would affect lower extremity function (stroke, peripheral neuropathy, parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, etc.),
  • are women who are pregnant.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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