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The primary purpose of this study is to compare the effects of a high and low intensity strength training programs vs. a control group on knee pain and compressive joint forces.


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Muscle loss and fat gain contribute to the disability, pain, and morbidity associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA), and thigh muscle weakness is an independent and modifiable risk factor for it. However, while all published treatment guidelines, supported by Level-1 evidence, recommend muscle strengthening to combat sarcopenia and improve muscle quality in knee OA patients, previous strength-training studies either used intensities or loads below recommended levels or were generally short, lasting only 6 to 24 weeks. Consequently, they had low-to-modest effect sizes, could not detect changes in disease progression, did not address underlying OA mechanisms, and provided little lasting clinical benefit. The positive effects of long-term, structured exercise are known to persist even years after supervised treatment terminates.

The efficacy of high intensity strength training in improving OA symptoms, slowing progression, and affecting the underlying mechanisms has not been examined due to the unsubstantiated belief that it might exacerbate symptoms. Our preliminary data clearly show excellent tolerance for high-intensity strength training as well as reduced pain and increased function among older adults with knee OA. Similar studies in healthy older adults found improvements in thigh muscle mass and decreases in thigh fat mass with minimal alteration in total body weight after 16-18 weeks of training. We now propose an 18-month, high-intensity strength-training intervention for older adults with knee OA, focused on improving thigh composition (more muscle and less fat). We hypothesize that in addition to short-term clinical benefits, combining greater duration with high intensity will alter thigh composition sufficiently to attain long-term changes in knee-joint forces, decrease inflammatory cytokines, lower pain levels, and slow OA progression, which has yet to be convincingly demonstrated for any OA treatment. These are important benefits that are not achievable with shorter interventions.

Participants will be randomized to one of 3 groups: high-intensity strength training; low-intensity strength training; or attention control. The primary clinical aim is to compare the interventions' effects on knee pain, and the primary mechanistic aim is to compare their effects on knee-joint compressive forces during walking, a mechanism that affects the OA disease pathway. Secondary aims will compare intervention effects on additional clinical measures of disease severity (e.g., function, mobility); disease progression, measured by xray; thigh muscle and fat volume, measured by CT; components of thigh muscle function, including hip abductor strength and quadriceps strength, power, and proprioception; additional measures of knee-joint loading; and inflammatory and OA biomarkers. ;


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NCT number NCT01489462
Study type Interventional
Source Wake Forest University Health Sciences
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date March 2012
Completion date August 2018

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