No effects of functional exercise therapy on walking biomechanics in patients with knee osteoarthritis: exploratory outcome analyses from a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To assess the effects of a functional and individualised exercise programme on gait biomechanics during walking in people with knee OA.

Methods

Sixty participants were randomised to 12 weeks of facility-based functional and individualised neuromuscular exercise therapy (ET), 3 sessions per week supervised by trained physical therapists, or a no attention control group (CG). Three-dimensional gait analyses were used, from which a comprehensive list of conventional gait variables were extracted (totally 52 kinematic, kinetic and spatiotemporal variables). According to the protocol, the analyses were based on the 'Per-Protocol' population (defined as participants following the protocol with complete and valid gait analyses). Analysis of covariance adjusting for the level at

SUBMITTER: Henriksen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5569270 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature