Sensorimotor Training Versus Resistance Training in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

Federal University of São Paulo

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Phase 2

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Other: Control group (CG)

Other: Resistance training (RT)

Other: Sensorimotor training (SMT)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01529398

ABG MASTER

Details and patient eligibility

About

People with knee osteoarthritis (OA) have functional instability and defective neuromuscular function, it was recently suggested that sensorimotor exercises may be important and needed to improve the effectiveness of training programs for these patients. This study objective was to compare the effectiveness of a supervised resistance muscular training (RT) versus sensorimotor training (SMT) for patients with Knee OA, on decrease of pain and functional improvement.

Enrollment

96 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients diagnosed with tibiofemoral osteoarthritis;
Both genders;
Age> 50 years <75 years;
Completion of clinical and radiological criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for knee OA;
No physical activity in the previous 3 months;
Education level from the 4th grade of primary school.

Exclusion criteria

uncontrolled hypertension;
decompensated diabetes mellitus;
uncontrolled thyroid diseases;
cardiorespiratory disease (ischemia, arrhythmia, chest pain, or exercise-induced bronchospasm), liver abnormalities;
Patients with grade IV functional limitation that needed devices to walk(Kellgren-Lawrence radiographic classification);
Patients in a period of sick leave by the INSS or any other related factor;
Other rheumatic diseases.