NCT06684574

Nordic Walking on Knee Osteoarthritis

Effects of Covid-19 and Nordic Walking on Older People with Knee Osteoarthritis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 71 (actual)
• Sponsor: Consorci Hospitalari de Vic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to improve osteoarthritis symptoms and quality of life in older people with knee osteoarthritis from a primary care center. The main question it aims to answer is: * To participate in a Nordic walking reduces pain measured on WOMAC pain dimension? * To participate in a Nordic walking improves mobility measured on WOMAC physical activitiy dimension? Researchers will compare pain and physical activity outcomes between intervention and control arm (randomly allocated).

Detailed description

Osteoarthritis is one of the clinical circumstances that produces the most disability in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), its main localization is in the knees and hips, the most disabling joints. Ten percent of the adult Spanish population has knee osteoarthritis , which is accompanied by symptoms of pain, mechanical alterations, stiffness, and decreased functionality, constituting one of the most common causes of disability in older people.. Decreased muscle mass and strength of knee extensor-flexor muscles are associated with symptomatic progression of oseoarthritis and lower general health status.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis of Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nordic walking program	The intervention is a defined program of Nordic walking and strengthening exercises for 10 weeks in a regimen of two days per week (two 75-minute sessions per week). In these sessions, they did Nordic walking three 5-minute breaks, where strength and proprioception exercises of the lower extremities were performed.
OTHER	Educational advise	Patients in the control arm participated in a single session to advise them on the need for self-exercise.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2024-11-12
• Last updated: 2024-11-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain