Status:

COMPLETED

Progressive Collective-exercise Program on the Knee Osteoarthritis

Lead Sponsor:

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Conditions:

Knee Osteoarthritis

Eligibility:

All Genders

50-80 years

Phase:

NA

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...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

  • 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

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

November 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

30 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01850862

Start Date

June 1 2011

End Date

November 1 2011

Last Update

May 16 2013

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Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, 59072-970