NCT00562822

Surgery Versus No Surgery for Osteoarthritis (OA) of the Knee

Arthroscopic vs. Non-surgical Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 188 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Western Ontario, Canada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to discover whether arthroscopic surgery is helpful in controlling the symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee.

Detailed description

Although arthroscopic surgery has been widely used for osteoarthritis of the knee, scientific evidence to support its efficacy is lacking. This study will compare optimized physical and medical therapy alone with arthroscopic treatment in addition to optimized physical and medical therapy.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis of the Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Arthroscopic surgery	Arthroscopic surgery to treat unresolved symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee
OTHER	Physical and medical therapy	Treatment with physical and medical therapy alone

Timeline

• Start date: 1999-01-01
• Primary completion: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2007-08-01
• First posted: 2007-11-22
• Last updated: 2014-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada