Effects of Therapeutic Exercises in Elderly Women With Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT ID: NCT02560831

Last Updated: 2015-09-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 22 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2014-12-31

Brief Summary

Knee Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease associated with muscle weakness, arthralgia, rigidity and postural instability. Therapeutic exercise can reduce pain and improve muscle strength and postural balance, however benefits from association with pompage is not known. This study aims to evaluate the effects of therapeutic exercise on pain, muscle strength and postural balance in elderly women with knee osteoarthritis. Methodology: Almost randomized controlled trial, in which were included elderly between 60 and 80 years diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis, randomized into two groups with 11 participants each. Intervention group held strengthening exercises for flexors and knee extensors, balance training, and manual knee pompage for 12 weeks. Control Group received educational lectures. Arthralgia was estimated by pain subscale of the questionnaire Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index and (WOMAC); muscle strength was assessed by the isokinetic dynamometer HUMAC® NORM Testing & Rehabilitation System and the postural balance by the Biodex Balance SD postural stability protocol (Biodex Medical Systems, Inc. New York, USA). The Student t test was used for statistical analysis.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Therapeutic exercise and Pompage

strengthening exercises, balance training and knee's pompage

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Therapeutic exercise and Pompage

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Strengthening exercises for flexors and knee extensors, balance training, knee's pompage twice per week for 12 weeks.

Control

Educational lectures.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Educational lectures

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Educational lectures in four meetings for 12 weeks (Control Group)

Interventions

Therapeutic exercise and Pompage

Strengthening exercises for flexors and knee extensors, balance training, knee's pompage twice per week for 12 weeks.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Educational lectures

Educational lectures in four meetings for 12 weeks (Control Group)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Female
• Aged between 60 and 80 years
• Diagnosed with knee's osteoarthritis according to clinical and radiographic criteria of the American College of Rheumatology.

Exclusion Criteria

• Cardiovascular and/or unstable respiratory diseases
• Knee or hip arthroplasty; in the last 6 months: surgery on lower limbs, intraarticular corticosteroid injection in the knee, physical therapy
• Associated diseases that contribute to the balance disorders (for example ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, neurological diseases, Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy and vestibular).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Marcia Alessandra Carneiro Pedrosa de Castro

Profa. Dra.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Other Identifiers

CAAE 02993812.3.0000.5208

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id