Gait Modification for Knee Osteoarthritis — SENSMOD  

Osteoarthritis, Knee Clinical Trial

Official title: Foot Progression Angle Modification: an Exploratory Six-week Intervention in People With Knee Osteoarthritis

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

This randomized clinical trial will compare the changes in performance, biomechanical and clinical outcomes before and after a six-week gait modification intervention. Participants with knee osteoarthritis will attend in-lab assessments and practice, while also performing daily, at-home walking tracked using a custom sensorized shoe.

Clinical Trial Description

Greater toe-in or toe-out angles during walking are potential biomechanical management strategies for medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA). Multi-week clinical trials demonstrate the biomechanical efficacy and potential clinical efficacy. However, walking biomechanics have only been assessed within laboratory environments and performance of the modifications during daily at-home walking is currently unknown. Furthermore, the modifications have largely been instructed using a specific target, requiring motor learning. No study has examined whether a self-directed strategy is feasible and will produce significant improvements in biomechanical and clinical outcomes. Moreover, objective real-world performance of these modifications is unknown and may explain the previous inconsistent clinical results. This study will address these gaps. The investigators hypothesize that real-world performance of the modifications will improve over the intervention and that both groups will exhibit improvements in biomechanical and clinical outcomes at follow up. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoarthritis
• Osteoarthritis, Knee

• NCT number: NCT04323969
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of British Columbia
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 20, 2020
• Completion date: March 12, 2020