Gait retraining interventions for people with knee osteoarthritis

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: knee osteoarthritis; Musculoskeletal - Osteoarthritis; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy

• Registration Number: ACTRN12619000367145
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Milena Simic

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-03-08
• Last Update Posted: 10 December 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 18

Inclusion Criteria

Display clinical signs of knee osteoarthritis according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellent (NICE) guidelines (2014), which involves being 45 years or older, having activity-related joint pain, and having either no morning joint-related stiffness or morning stiffness that lasts no longer than 30 minutes
-Mostly reporting medial knee pain
-Reporting average knee pain of 3 or more (out of 10) on a visual analogue scale with 0 representing no pain and 10 representing worst pain imaginable
-Able to walk unaided for at least 30 minutes

Exclusion Criteria

-History of knee arthroplasty or injection within the past 6 months
-History of joint replacement surgery involving the knee or hip of the affected side
-Neurological conditions affecting ambulation
-Other systematic rheumatologic conditions affecting joints (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis)
-Spinal pain with lower limb symptoms

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient-rated acceptability of the intervention. <br>Participants will be asked if the gait modification is found be beneficial for knee OA, how likely are you to use this strategy?” They will then be asked to rate this level of acceptability on a VAS ranging from 0 to 10, with 0 being extremely unlikely and 10 being extremely likely. [6 week assessment];Adherence will be monitored by (1) adherence to therapist sessions (the total number of supervised sessions attended), and (2) adherence to prescribed self-practice. Adherence to self-practice will be assessed via logbook data and represented as weekly averages of time (in minutes) practiced per day, calculated as the weekly total time practiced divided by the number of days between weekly supervised sessions. [6 week]