NCT02043613

Context Effects in Exercise Therapy for Knee and/or Hip Pain

Effect of Physical Surroundings on Effects From Exercise as Treatment for Hip or Knee Pain: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study is designed to investigate the effect of physical surroundings on the effect of exercise therapy for knee and hip pain.

Detailed description

Context effect have been shown to be influential in health-care settings, such as hospitals. This study investigates if context effects can be caused by the physical surroundings of exercise. The study is designed as a double-blind randomized controlled clinical trial. Patients with knee and/or hip pain with a duration of a least 3 months are included in the trial and randomly assigned to 3 groups. 1. Exercise in pre-existing, standard room 2. Exercise in contextually enhanced room. 3. Waiting list. The intervention consists markedly different between the two exercise rooms. The physical surroundings are described by factors such as acoustics, light source and intensity, decorations and air quality. The exercise program applied is based on a previously investigated neuromuscular exercise program, NEMEX. The same program is performed in both exercise rooms. Consequently, only the physical surroundings differ between intervention groups. Patients' "global perceived effect" is used as the primary outcome assessed at 8 weeks follow-up.

Conditions

• Joint Pain
• Knee Pain
• Hip Pain
• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Osteoarthritis, Hip

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Contextually enhanced physical surroundings of exercise	Different physical surroundings of exercise may affects the patients differently and consequently influence the effect of exercise. The exercise rooms are different from each other on parameters such as source of lighting, acoustics, materials and decorations. The differences with the physical surroundings of exercise is the primary intervention for this study.
OTHER	Neuromuscular exercise	The neuromuscular exercise program is the same across the two exercise groups. Consequently, this intervention is not the primary intervention of this study. The exercise program is based on the previously reported NEMEX program designed for patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis, originally published by Ageberg et al, 2010 in BMCMusculoskeletal Disorders.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2014-01-23
• Last updated: 2015-03-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark