NCT04777526

Effectiveness of Proprioceptive Exercises Program in Patients With Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis

Clinical Effects of a Proprioceptive Thumb Exercise for Individuals With Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Quasi-experimental Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Malaga · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: To establish the effectiveness of a proprioceptive training program as a complementary therapy for a traditional protocol in position control, pain intensity, upper limb function and occupation performance for patients with thumb CMC joint OA. Methods: Standard conservative thumb CMC joint OA treatments were received for both the control (n=26) and experimental groups (n=26) for a period of 12 weeks. The experimental group received a proprioceptive training program during the same intervention period, which was conducted twice weekly (24 sessions). The severity of pain with activity was measured according to the visual analog scale (VAS). QuickDASH questionnaire was used to measure upper extremity function. Patient's occupational performance was measured with the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) and proprioception was assessed using Joint position sense (JPS) testing.

Conditions

• Thumb Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Proprioception exercises	Exercises for recognition of thumb position and thumb force sense.
OTHER	Joint protection program	Reeducation in the activities daily life
OTHER	Thumb orthosis	Thumb night orthosis
OTHER	Manual distraction	Manual distraction of CMC joint

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-02
• Primary completion: 2020-01-30
• Completion: 2020-07-18
• First posted: 2021-03-02
• Last updated: 2021-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain