Dose-response: Exercise Therapy on Hip Osteoarthritis

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Hip

Treatments: Other: Low-Dosage Exercise Therapy; Other: High-Dosage Exercise Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01700933

DROAPS1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Osteoarthritis is a common disease that causes muscle weakness, stiffness and instability. The disease reduces the opportunities for an active lifestyle. Exercise Therapy provides a well-documented effect on pain and function in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip. It is sought an optimal dose of exercise, in which this study will help to investigate.

We hypothesize that an exercise program designed to have a high number of repetitions will benefit the outcome of the training in a more positive way than a low-repetition based program.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least three month since debut of the disease
• Age above 45 years
• Ability to complete the intervention

Exclusion criteria

• Pain above 4 on VAS during gait
• Pregnancy
• Autoimmune disease
• Cardiovascular disease
• Respiratory disease
• Metabolic disease
• Neurological signs
• Planned hip-replacement surgery within the next year
• Received exercise therapy within the last 3 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

High-dosage-group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: High-Dosage Exercise Therapy

Low-dosage-group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Low-Dosage Exercise Therapy