Barriers and facilitators of loaded self-managed exercises and physical activity in people with patellofemoral pain: understanding the feasibility of delivering a multicentred randomised controlled trial, a UK qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is an emergent body of evidence supporting exercise therapy and physical activity in the management of musculoskeletal pain. The purpose of this study was to explore potential barriers and facilitators with patients and physiotherapists with patellofemoral pain involved in a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) study. The trial investigated a loaded self-managed exercise intervention, which included education and advice on physical activity versus usual physiotherapy as the control.

Design

Qualitative study, embedded within a mixed-methods design, using semi-structured interviews.

Setting

A UK National Health Service physiotherapy clinic in a large teaching hospital.

Participants

Purposively sampled 20 participants within a feasibility

SUBMITTER: Smith BE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6561411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature