Investigating the Effect of Interval Walking and Qigong on People With Knee Osteoarthritis: Pilot Study

NCT ID: NCT04528953

Last Updated: 2022-05-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 45 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-10-13
• Study Completion Date: 2022-10-31

Brief Summary

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) causes pain and limited function that leads to a sedentary lifestyle. The sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. In addition, many subjects with KOA have knee pain and sleep disturbance that limit their function, quality of life and cause body fatigue. Walking exercise can benefit people with KOA. However, continues walking for more than 30 minutes can increase pain that may stop people from participation in walking exercise.

Interval walking may complete the same amount of walking exercise in several separate time periods, without causing extra pain in people with KOA. Mind-body exercise may improve sleep and pain in people with KOA.

This study will help researchers to find out whether the interval walking, or mind-body exercise may help people with KOA to improve their pain, fitness level, sleep quality, exercise participation, fatigue, and quality of life.

By doing this study, researchers hope to learn more about the interval walking or mind-body exercise in people with KOA.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis, Knee

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

interval group

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Interval walking and Qigong exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interval walking: The subjects will be asked to complete daily 30 minutes of walking in two 15-minute bouts with the rest interval for at least 0.5 an hour and not more than 2 hours between each bout.

Qigong exercise: mind-body exercise using the "six healing sound" Qigong exercise will be used because it is easy to learn, requires minimal physical capability, and can be performed even in a sitting body position.

Qigong exercise

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Interval walking and Qigong exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interval walking: The subjects will be asked to complete daily 30 minutes of walking in two 15-minute bouts with the rest interval for at least 0.5 an hour and not more than 2 hours between each bout.

Qigong exercise: mind-body exercise using the "six healing sound" Qigong exercise will be used because it is easy to learn, requires minimal physical capability, and can be performed even in a sitting body position.

continuous walking

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Interval walking and Qigong exercise

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Interval walking: The subjects will be asked to complete daily 30 minutes of walking in two 15-minute bouts with the rest interval for at least 0.5 an hour and not more than 2 hours between each bout.

Qigong exercise: mind-body exercise using the "six healing sound" Qigong exercise will be used because it is easy to learn, requires minimal physical capability, and can be performed even in a sitting body position.

Interventions

Interval walking and Qigong exercise

Interval walking: The subjects will be asked to complete daily 30 minutes of walking in two 15-minute bouts with the rest interval for at least 0.5 an hour and not more than 2 hours between each bout.

Qigong exercise: mind-body exercise using the "six healing sound" Qigong exercise will be used because it is easy to learn, requires minimal physical capability, and can be performed even in a sitting body position.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. 60-79 years of age and diagnosed with KOA by a physician or meet the ACR criteria (95% sensitivity, and 69% specificity) for KOA. The ACR criteria include experiencing almost daily knee pain and having at least 3 of these 6 criteria: (1) Age more than 50 years old, (2) less than 30 minutes of morning stiffness, (3) increased warmth of the knee, (4) crepitus with flexion or extension, (5) joints' bony enlargement , and (6) tenderness of joint line with palpation, or subject must be diagnosed radiologically, with grade II or more according to the Kellgren and Lawrence rating scale.

2. Frequent knee pain or aching on most of the preceding 30 days.

3. An average of mild to moderate pain intensity level (5 to 75 mm on the 100 mm VAS) in the last 7 days

4. Sedentary lifestyle assessed using 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities questionnaire. The subject is considered sedentary if engaging in exercise or physical activity with metabolic equivalents of task (MET) less than 4, not more than two times/week.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Unwilling to attend 3 sessions/week at Kirmayer Fitness Center

2. Having other types of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis or gout

3. Neurological disorders

4. CVD including hypertension that prevent them from engaging in walking exercise

5. Currently using beta blocker medication

6. Underwent any lower limb surgery during the past 6 months

7. A history of two or more incidents of fall during the last 6 months

8. Current hip or spine pain that prevents them from engaging in walking exercise.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 79 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Kansas Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Wen Liu

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Batool Alkhamis, MS

Role: CONTACT

balkhamis@kumc.edu

8167431152

Wen Liu, PhD

Role: CONTACT

wliu@kumc.edu

9135262250

Facility Contacts

Batool Alkhamis, PT, MS

Role: primary

balkhamis@kumc.edu

816-743-1152

Other Identifiers

STUDY00146006

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id