Effects of a Stretching Protocol in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis

University of Zaragoza

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hip Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Other: Hip flexors stretching protocol

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03702595

1955

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic disease in the world. Clinical guidelines recommend non-pharmacological conservative treatments for the management of OA. Hip flexors seems to play an important role in the development of hip OA but there is no published studies evaluating the results of a stretching protocol of hip flexors in hip OA patients.

The objective of this trial is to evaluate if a stretching protocol of hip flexors is more effective in symptoms, functional capacity , range of motion, strength, muscular length, pain threshold and anxiety and depression compared to control.

For this purpose the investigators conduct a single-group, pretest-posttest clinical trial.The investigators included patients diagnosed of hip osteoarthritis Grade I-III by Scale of Kellgren and Lawrence.

The variables are measured at the beginning and at the end of treatment of the control phase, and at the end of the stretching protocol phase.

Enrollment

15 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosed medically with a X-Ray test
American College of Rheumatology Criteria

Exclusion criteria

Secondary osteoarthritis by a traumatism, Paget disease, inflammatory or metabolic disease, congenital diseases etc.
Vascular or neurological disease.
Musculoskeletal pathologies in lumbar spine, pelvis or lower limbs
Grade IV in Kellgren and Laurence Scale