Non-surgical Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis - a Comparison of Effects in 2200 Patients

Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Drug: Cortisone Injection; Other: Physiotherapy; Drug: Paracetamol and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID); Other: Others

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02091830

The 07 - 11 cohort

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess whether radiographic osteoarthritis severity (OA; Kellgren-Lawrence scale) is associated with self-reported improvement in pain after non-surgical treatments (physiotherapy, pain killers, injection, other treatments).

The hypothesis is that radiographic OA severity is inversely associated with self-reported improvement.

Enrollment: 2,262 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Not eligible for at total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Ipsilateral knee arthroplasty

Trial design

2,262 participants in 1 patient group

Non-surgical treatment

Treatment:

Other: Others

Drug: Paracetamol and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID)

Drug: Cortisone Injection

Other: Physiotherapy