Progressive Collective-exercise Program on the Knee Osteoarthritis

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis
• Interventions: Other: Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA; Other: Orientation (without exercise)

• Registration Number: NCT01850862
• Lead Sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-06
• Primary Completion: 2011-10
• Study Completion: 2011-11
• Status Verified: 2013-05
• Study First Submitted: 2013-05-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-05-09
• Study First Posted: 2013-05-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-05-15
• Last Update Posted: 2013-05-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• 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.

Exclusion Criteria

• 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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA	Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA	Collective exercises program for patients with osteoarthritis and orientation about this disease
Control group (without exercise)	Orientation (without exercise)	Orientation about osteoarthritis disease but without any exercise program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain	Eight weeks	pain assessed by Visual Analogue Scale

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
quality of life	Eight weeks	quality of life assessed by SF-36 questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte; 🇧🇷 Natal, RN, Brazil