Intensive Gait Training for Older Adults with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to determine whether individualized gait training is more effective than usual care for reducing mobility disability and pain in individuals with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

Design

Adults aged 60 yrs or older with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and mobility limitations were randomized to physical therapist-directed gait training on an instrumented treadmill, with biofeedback individualized to optimize knee movements, biweekly for 3 mos or usual care (control). Mobility disability was defined using Late Life Function and Disability Index Basic Lower Limb Function score (primary); mobility limitations, using timed 400-m walk, chair-stand, and stair-climb tests; and symptoms, using the Knee Injury/Osteoarthritis Outcome Score at b

SUBMITTER: Segal NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4567520 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature