Treatment for Osgood Schlatter Patients With a Physiotherapy Program (TrOPhy)

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osgood-Schlatter Disease

Treatments: Other: usual care treatment; Other: physiotherapy program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04716608

2020-02132 ks20Neuhaus;

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to compare the effect of a physiotherapy program to usual care treatment in patients with Osgood Schlatter disease (OSD). Patients will be randomly assigned into two groups. Group 1 will receive the physiotherapy program with myofascial massage, while group 2 (usual care group USC) will receive usual care treatment.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Uni- or bilateral OSD
• ability to follow instructions
• sufficient knowledge of German
• availability: can participate in two exercise sessions per week for a period of 8 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• any history of knee surgery
• medication intake affecting the knee
• unstable fractures
• neurological disorders
• systematic diseases
• already in physiotherapeutic treatment because of the knee
• not possible to do any physiotherapy sessions at the Universitäts-Kinderspital Basel (UKBB)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Group 1 INT (= intervention)

Active Comparator group

Description:

physiotherapy program with * Myofascial Release Massage (quadriceps) * Foam Rolling lower extremity * Knee Isometrics in knee extension (sitting position) * Dynamic and static stretching (quadriceps) in half knee position * Core Stability (planks) * Strengthening (calf raises, good morning,squats, squat jump) * Balance (single leg stance)

Treatment:

Other: physiotherapy program

Group 2 USC (= usual care)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

usual care treatment with * Core Stability (prone plank) * Strengthening: (Hip extension, abduction; Calf raises) * Stretching (M. rectus femoris (static) in standing position; Hamstring in sitting position) * Balance (single leg stand)

Treatment:

Other: usual care treatment