NCT03431298

The Benefit of Functional Movement Control for Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

The Benefit of Increasing Physical Activity and Functional Movement Control for Patients With Stage II or III Knee Osteoarthritis

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study purpose is to explore the effect of functional movement control for patients who have stage II or III degenerative knee joint disease and also physical inactive. Half of patients will receive aerobic exercise and functional movement control training in combination, while the other will simply receive aerobic exercise.

Detailed description

Physical inactivity, which is a common phenomenon among patients with degenerative knee joint disease has been proved a predictor of increased symptoms and poor general health. However, changing the lifestyle of people with this disease who is physical inactive is still a problem which has not been solved. Knee pain may act as barrier to engage in physical activity and can influence patient's movement performance. The different effectiveness between the aerobic exercise and functional movement control training. Aerobic exercise has been proved could improve knee pain for the patients with degenerative knee joint disease. The functional movement control training could improve knee alignment during walking and other functional activities to increase patient's movement awareness.

Conditions

• Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Aerobic exercise & movement control	The aerobic exercise content is no different between the experimental group and the active comparator group. The movement control is individual training which divided into fourths progressing sessions. * First, lumbo-pelvic and hip dynamic direction control. * Second, trunk muscle groups, hip muscle groups and thigh muscle groups extensibility control. * Third, trunk muscle groups and hip muscle groups through range control. * Fourth, functional movement control training
BEHAVIORAL	Aerobic exercise	The aerobic exercise will organized in groups. Each group has 6-8 persons. The exercise form is fixed at each time. The description of exercise form is as below: * 10 min Warm up * 40 min Aerobic exercise (which focus on lower extremity muscle strengthening and increasing muscle endurance) * 10 min Cool down

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2018-02-13
• Last updated: 2018-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan