Exercise and Patient Education for Patients With Lateral Hip Pain

NCT ID: NCT06418217

Last Updated: 2025-06-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-17
• Study Completion Date: 2027-02-01

Brief Summary

This prospective cohort trial will investigate a progressive exercise protocol and patient education for patients with hip abductor tendon pathology. The primary outcome is patient reported pain measured by the revised Copenhagen Hip And Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS), that will be conducted at baseline and at a 12 week follow-up.

Detailed Description

This study protocol describes an interventional pragmatic prospective single-group cohort study, where the primary endpoint is change in hip pain measured with the revised HAGOS pain subscale following a 12 week intervention. Throughout the 12 weeks, eight physiotherapist-led exercise sessions will take place at Horsens Regional Hospital (HRH). Further, at the sessions at HRH patient education will be performed by the supervising physiotherapist. The first supervised sessions will be performed in continuation of the baseline assessment. The patients will be instructed to do the exercises daily at home in the time period between the physiotherapist-led sessions.

The primary aim is to investigate changes in patient-reported hip pain based on the subscale "pain" from the revised Copenhagen Hip And Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS) from baseline to 12 week follow-up.

It is hypothesized that the revised HAGOS pain score will improve from baseline to 12 week follow-up.

Secondarily explorative subgroup analyses regarding whether patients with different MRI findings, pain profiles, age, sex and body mass index (BMI) respond differently to the intervention, will be performed.

All outcomes conducted will be published. That is, patient-reported outcomes, muscle strength, functional capacity and adherence to the exercise protocol.

A full study protocol will be published and made available.

Conditions

Gluteal Tendinitis; Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome; Hip and Thigh Injury; Rupture of Hip Abductor Tendon (Disorder)

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Physiotherapist-led exercise

Physiotherapy-led exercise of patients with lateral hip pain

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise and Patient Education

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Patients will undergo a 12-week physiotherapist-led exercise program consisting of 8 supervised sessions and home-based training in between.

Patients will keep training diaries, where each session is tracked in regards of completed repetitions and pain before and after the sessions. Each session will consist of four exercises.

Interventions

Exercise and Patient Education

Patients will undergo a 12-week physiotherapist-led exercise program consisting of 8 supervised sessions and home-based training in between.

Patients will keep training diaries, where each session is tracked in regards of completed repetitions and pain before and after the sessions. Each session will consist of four exercises.

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18-75 years
• MRI verified HATP
• Lateral hip pain duration > 6 months
• Ability to read and understand Danish.

Exclusion Criteria

• Corticosteroid injection in the affected hip joint within the last six weeks prior to the intervention
• Previous bone-related surgery to the affected hip,
• Signs of bilateral HATP
• X-ray verified hip osteoarthritis
• Pregnancy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Aarhus

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Jeppe Lange

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Jeppe Lange

MD, PhD

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mathias Høgsholt, PT, PhD.st.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Horsens Regional Hospital; Aarhus University

Jeppe Lange, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Horsens Regional Hospital; Aarhus University

Signe Kierkegaard-Brøchner, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Regionshospitalet Horsens

Kristian Thorborg, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre

Marie Bagger Bohn, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Regionshospitalet Horsens

Locations

Horsens Regional Hospital

Horsens, Horsens, Denmark

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Denmark

Central Contacts

Mathias Høgsholt, PT,PhD.-st.

Role: CONTACT

mathhg@rm.dk

+45 24205299

Jeppe Lange, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

jepplang@rm.dk

Facility Contacts

Mathias Høgsholt, PT,PhD.-st.

Role: primary

mathhg@rm.dk

+45 24205299

Jeppe Lange, MD,PhD.

Role: backup

jepplang@rm.dk

References

Hogsholt M, Kierkegaard-Brochner S, Lange J, Thorborg K, Bohn MB. Physiotherapist-led education and exercise for patients with MRI-verified hip abductor tendon pathology: a protocol for a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2025 Sep 11;15(9):e106517. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106517.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 40940047 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

1-16-02-180-24

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id