Effects of a Stretching Protocol in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hip Osteoarthritis
• Interventions: Other: Hip flexors stretching protocol

• Registration Number: NCT03702595
• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Zaragoza

Brief Summary

Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic disease in the world. Clinical guidelines recommend non-pharmacological conservative treatments for the management of OA. Hip flexors seems to play an important role in the development of hip OA but there is no published studies evaluating the results of a stretching protocol of hip flexors in hip OA patients.

The objective of this trial is to evaluate if a stretching protocol of hip flexors is more effective in symptoms, functional capacity , range of motion, strength, muscular length, pain threshold and anxiety and depression compared to control.

For this purpose the investigators conduct a single-group, pretest-posttest clinical trial.The investigators included patients diagnosed of hip osteoarthritis Grade I-III by Scale of Kellgren and Lawrence.

The variables are measured at the beginning and at the end of treatment of the control phase, and at the end of the stretching protocol phase.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-08-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-08-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-10-10
• Study First Posted: 2018-10-11
• Primary Completion: 2018-11-30
• Study Completion: 2018-12-30
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-17
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 15

Inclusion Criteria

• Diagnosed medically with a X-Ray test
• American College of Rheumatology Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• Secondary osteoarthritis by a traumatism, Paget disease, inflammatory or metabolic disease, congenital diseases etc.
• Vascular or neurological disease.
• Musculoskeletal pathologies in lumbar spine, pelvis or lower limbs
• Grade IV in Kellgren and Laurence Scale

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interventional group	Hip flexors stretching protocol	Hip flexors stretching protocol

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes from baseline in pain intensity	3 weeks	Visual Analogic Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Functional Capacity	3 weeks	The investigators measure the functional capacity with Timed Up and Go test (TUG)
WOMAC questionnaire	3 weeks	WOMAC questionnaire
Hip Range of Motion	3 weeks	Digital inclinometer according to Pua et al., 2008
Muscular strength	3 weeks	The investigators measure the hip strength with a hand held dynamometer (Lafayette)
Muscular length	3 weeks	The investigators measure the muscular length with an inclinometer
Pressure Pain threshold	3 weeks	Pressure algometry measured by digital algometer
Anxiety and Depression	3 weeks	Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Luis Ceballos Laita; 🇪🇸 Zaragoza, Spain

Sandra Jiménez del Barrio; 🇪🇸 Soria, Spain