Progressive Collective-exercise Program on the Knee Osteoarthritis

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Status

Completed

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Other: Orientation (without exercise)

Other: Collective group exercise program in patients with KOA

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01850862

CEP-UFRN 530/11

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesized that an eight-week collective group exercise program would improve pain, quality of life and functional capacity in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) compared with those receiving no exercise intervention.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

symptomatic and moderate to severe medical diagnostic of KOA.
Subjects with normal cognitive functions and no restriction to perform physical activities were recruited from the hospital's KOA database and eligible to participate if they had presented: Lequesne questionnaire criteria (5 - 13.5), knee pain score between 3 and 7 (on a 0 -10 Visual Analogue Scale), stable doses of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and no regular physical exercise or use of canes in the months prior to the study.

Exclusion criteria

Symptomatic heart disease; symptomatic disease of the lower limbs (other than KOA); symptomatic lung disease; severe systemic disease; severe psychiatric illness; regular physical exercise (three or more times per week for at least 3 months); drug injection in the knee in the previous 3 months; physiotherapy on the lower limbs in the previous 3 months and absence in two consecutive training sessions or three nonconsecutive sessions