Impairment-targeted exercises for older adults with knee pain: protocol for a proof-of-principle study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercise therapy for knee pain and osteoarthritis remains a key element of conservative treatment, recommended in clinical guidelines. Yet systematic reviews point to only modest benefits from exercise interventions.One reason for this might be that clinical trials tend to use a one-size-fits-all approach to exercise, effectively disregarding the details of their participants' clinical presentations. This uncontrolled before-after study (TargET-Knee-Pain) aims to test the principle that exercises targeted at the specific physical impairments of older adults with knee pain may be able to significantly improve those impairments. It is a first step towards testing the effectiveness of this more individually-tailored approach.

Methods/design

We aim to recruit 60 parti

SUBMITTER: Wood LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3025930 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature