Clinical efficacy of a distance exercise protocol associated with telephone professional follow-up for patients with chronic knee pai
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- OsteoarthritisC05.550.114.606
- Registration Number
- RBR-7t5bhh
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de São Carlos
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
It will be included participants aged greater than or equal to 45 years, with chronic knee pain, defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as recurrent pain for at least 3 months, (score 4 on the Visual Analogue Pain Scale [EVA]) and medium to moderate physical dysfunction (score> 20 of 68 on the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index [WOMAC]).
Exclusion Criteria
Subjects who have undergone knee arthroplasty or other lower limb surgery will be excluded from the study, are already undergoing any treatment or exercise program, have any neurological or cardiovascular conditions that limit exercise and do not have access to a telephone.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It is hoped that the volunteers who make a protocol of exercises at a distance together with telerehabilitation will have a clinical improvement, characterized by an improvement in functional activities (verified by the functional tests and WOMAC questionnaire) and decrease in pain intensity (verified by Analog Visual Scale - EVA), higher than those who only make the protocol.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcomes are not expected