The 8 Section Brocade Tai Chi Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Exercise Training; Tai Chi; Osteoarthritis, Knee

Treatments: Behavioral: Tai Chi Exercise

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04204213

3505.2715

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tai Chi exercises have increasingly grown in popularity among older adults in the past decades. It has been well studied to its efficacies in proportion with the management of elderly fall prevention and mineral-structured bone density enhancement. Nevertheless, existing study sources do little exemplified a quantifiable measures of effects in patients suffer from osteoarthritis of knees being impacted from a routine performance of Tai Chi.

Full description

112 patients with end stage osteoarthritis knee had enrolled into a customised multidisciplinary education program that consisted of one hour healthcare education seminars followed by another hour of 8 Section Brocade (Baduanjin) sitting Tai Chi classes for 4 consecutive weeks. Followup measures were taken at baseline, 3 and 6 months post course commencement using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), SF-36v2 Health Survey and the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ-8).

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Diagnosed in symptomatic knee OA of Kellgren Lawrence (KL) grade 3 or 4, and have elected on list waiting for lower limb arthroplasty surgery

2. Aged 55 or above

3. Able to ambulate independently

4. Able to communicate in Cantonese

   Exclusion Criteria:

5. Previously underwent total knee replacement surgery

6. Diagnosed with other non-OA arthritide forms of the knees

7. Unable to complete all four sessions

8. Unable to complete all time-point measurements

Trial design

112 participants in 1 patient group

8 Section Brocade Tai Chi Therapy

Description:

Subject participants with end stage osteoarthritis knee were enrolled into a customised multidisciplinary education program that consisted of one hour healthcare education seminars followed by another hour of 8 Section Brocade (Baduanjin) sitting Tai Chi classes for 4 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tai Chi Exercise