Provision of knee bracing for knee osteoarthritis (PROP OA): multicentre, parallel group, superiority, statistician blinded, randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether adding compartment specific knee bracing with an adherence intervention to advice, written information, and exercise instruction (AIE+B) is superior to advice, written information, and exercise instruction (AIE) only in improving patient reported outcomes in people with knee osteoarthritis.

Design

Multicentre, parallel group, superiority, statistician blinded, randomised (1:1; block; stratified; centralised web based) controlled trial.

Setting

Recruitment through general practices and the community in Cheshire, Manchester, North Tyneside, and Staffordshire, England; enrolment 25 November 2019 to 16 September 2022.

Participants

466 adults aged ≥45 years with symptoms of knee osteoarthritis.

Interventions

AIE was delivered in

SUBMITTER: Holden MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12829467 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature