Effects of a knee soft brace in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Effect of a soft brace on knee pain, knee stability and activity limitations in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON28525

Enrollment

Registered

2017-05-15

Start date

2015-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Knee osteoarthritis

Interventions

A knee soft brace (knee sleeve)

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients from the Amsterdam Osteoarthritis cohort with a unilateral or bilateral diagnosis of knee OA according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) will be included. ACR criteria are age over 50 years, morning stiffness less than 30 minutes, crepitus on active motion, bony tenderness, or absence of palpable warmth of synovium. Inclusion criteria for the current study are knee osteoarthritis based on the ACR criteria, age between the 50 and 80 years old, Body Mass Index (BMI) between 20 and 30 kg/m2, a maximal score of 7 on the numeric rate scale (NRS) for pain intensity during the past two weeks and having the perception of an episode of buckling, shifting or giving way of the knee in the past three months.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Total knee replacement, rheumatoid arthritis or any other form of inflammatory arthritis (i.e., crystal arthropathy or septic arthritis).

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Pain assessed with Numeric Rating Scale (NRS)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Activity limitations (Get Up and Go Test and 10-m walk test); Self-reported knee instability; Self-reported knee confidence	—

Contacts

Public ContactMartin Van der Esch

m.vd.esch@reade.nl

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)