Effects of Retro-walking in Patients With Knee OA

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteo Arthritis Knee

Treatments: Other: Retro walking and conventional; Other: conventional therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06130774

REC 01681 MAIRA KANWAL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Osteoarthritis is degenerative joint disease that cause deterioration of the articular cartilage and neighboring tissue and lead to osteophyte formation, weakening of surrounding muscles, ligamentous laxity and inflammation of synovium. Diagnosis can be made based on history and clinical features and risk factors including age, sex, body mass index , absence of whole leg pain, fixed flexion deformity, absence of traumatic event, restricted flexion range of motion, pain in descending stairs, palpable effusion and crepitus. Confirmation is usually based on radiological finding according to Kellgren and Lawrence diagnostic scale . Radio graphic changes of osteoarthritis of the knee are bilateral in 85% of patients .

Full description

Knee pain is a major symptom of knee osteoarthritis (OA) that lead to stiffness, and capsular contracture along with muscle spasm. Decreased flexibility of muscles reduces the joint range of motion and thus contributes to increase in the stiffness of the joint lead to physical disability in persons with knee OA.Eighty percent of persons with knee OA experience pain and 25% struggle to perform activities of daily living.) Retro-walking is sometimes referred to as backward walking, has been thought to be used already for several decades in China, Japan and Europe to get a physical workout, improve sport performance, promote balance and also to stay mentally fit .

In fact in Europe, they have races which vary from sprints to the 26.2 miles marathon.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Unilateral Knee OA .
• Kellgren-Lawrence grading (grade 1 and 2)
• Participants fulfilling three out of the six clinical criteria listed by the American College of Rheumatology The criteria are Age >40 years, Morning stiffness lasting <30 mins. Crepitus with active motion, Bony tenderness, Bony enlargement and No warmth to touch and diagnosed to have knee OA
• Pain more than 6 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Trauma or surgery in the last 6 months.
• Hip, knee, and foot deformities.
• Stroke and other neurovascular issues.
• Severe pain (greater than 7 in NPRS)
• Difficulty in walking for 10 min continuously.
• Obesity (body mass index greater than 25 kg/m2 )
• Osteoporosis
• Patients having any systemic joint pathology, inflammatory joint disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, psoriatic arthritis).
• Patients who had any neurological deficit, myelopathy any mental illness.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 2 patient groups

Retro walking and conventional

Experimental group

Description:

Patient will start retro walking with first he/she will raise his/her one foot with toe off first then heel will be off from ground. swing phase of same leg would be done in backward direction with flexion on knee and extension will be performed on hip. Then patient will place the same foot on ground behind the other foot, with toe touch first on ground, and so this way patient would continue for 20 minutes continue his retro-walk for 20 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Retro walking and conventional

conventional therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Hot pack in supine lying (10min) TENS (10min ) Tibiofemoral mobilization (grade 1,2 ,3) (10rep) Static quadriceps exercise in supine (10rep x 3sec x2set) hip abduction in side lying(10repx 2set) knee bending exercise in prone lying ( 10rep x 2set) Hamstring stretch in supine ( 10 rep x 2 set)

Treatment:

Other: conventional therapy