NCT04528953

Investigating the Effect of Interval Walking and Qigong on People With Knee Osteoarthritis: Pilot Study

Investigating the Effect of Interval Walking and Qigong on Some Clinical and Biological Outcomes of People With Knee Osteoarthritis.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 79 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) causes pain and limited function that leads to a sedentary lifestyle. The sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. In addition, many subjects with KOA have knee pain and sleep disturbance that limit their function, quality of life and cause body fatigue. Walking exercise can benefit people with KOA. However, continues walking for more than 30 minutes can increase pain that may stop people from participation in walking exercise. Interval walking may complete the same amount of walking exercise in several separate time periods, without causing extra pain in people with KOA. Mind-body exercise may improve sleep and pain in people with KOA. This study will help researchers to find out whether the interval walking, or mind-body exercise may help people with KOA to improve their pain, fitness level, sleep quality, exercise participation, fatigue, and quality of life. By doing this study, researchers hope to learn more about the interval walking or mind-body exercise in people with KOA.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis, Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Interval walking and Qigong exercise	Interval walking: The subjects will be asked to complete daily 30 minutes of walking in two 15-minute bouts with the rest interval for at least 0.5 an hour and not more than 2 hours between each bout. Qigong exercise: mind-body exercise using the "six healing sound" Qigong exercise will be used because it is easy to learn, requires minimal physical capability, and can be performed even in a sitting body position.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-13
• Primary completion: 2022-08-01
• Completion: 2022-10-01
• First posted: 2020-08-27
• Last updated: 2022-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States