NCT04204213

The 8 Section Brocade Tai Chi Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

The 8 Section Brocade Tai Chi Therapy in Disease Management Program for Advanced Knee Osteoarthritis Patients: A Community - Based Care Approach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 112 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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).

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Tai Chi
• Exercise Training

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai Chi Exercise	8 Section Brocade (Baduanjin) sitting Tai Chi classes + Healthcare Education seminars

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-31
• Primary completion: 2016-06-30
• Completion: 2016-12-31
• First posted: 2019-12-18
• Last updated: 2019-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong