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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON35594
NL-OMON35594
Completed
Not Applicable

Evaluation of an exercise treatment strategy in patients with knee osteoarthritis and comorbidity (COOA): Randomized Clinical Trial - Comorbidity and exercise therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis: RCT

Koningklijk Nederlands Genootschap Fysiotherapie0 sites154 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
knee osteoarthritis
Sponsor
Koningklijk Nederlands Genootschap Fysiotherapie
Enrollment
154
Status
Completed
Last Updated
2 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
2 years ago
Study Type
Interventional

Investigators

Sponsor
Koningklijk Nederlands Genootschap Fysiotherapie

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • \- diagnoses of knee OA according to the clinical ACR criteria, i.e: knee pain and at least three of the following six: age \> 50 years, morning stifness \<30 minutes, crepitus, bony tenderness, bony enlargement and no palpable warmth
  • \- at least one of the following comorbidities (diagosed by a physican), with a score \*2 on the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (ie the comorbidity has influence on daily functioning and treatment of the comorbifity is necessary): coronary heart diseases, heart failure, diabetic type 2, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD)
  • \- focus of treatment is on OA\- related diability (instead of comorbidity \-related disability)

Exclusion Criteria

  • \- absolute contraindication for exercise therapy
  • \- indication of knee prothesis
  • \- refusal to sign informed consent
  • \- insufficient control over the Dutch language
  • \- patients with a high score of psychological distress (HADS score\>11, SCL\-90 score \>150\)
  • \- dementia (MMSE score \>26\)
  • \- suffering from significant physical limitations (possibly caused by co\-morbidities) that would prohibit a patient from following the physiotherapy program.
  • \- Patients who are expected to be lost for follow\-up (e.g. because of a planned change of residency

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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