Effectiveness of a Walking Intervention on Impact Loading and Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT04148807
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov Recruiting status changes often. Contact the study team listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and talk to your doctor before joining a study.
This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This study investigates the feasibility of a gait-retraining program for older adults with knee osteoarthritis. The study will enroll 40 participants, with 20 receiving a gait retraining intervention and 20 receiving a graded walking program without gait retraining.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of a Walking Intervention on Impact Loading and Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Progressive Walking with Gait Retraining
- Behavioral: Progressive Walking Program
- Sponsor
- Northeastern University
- Start date
- 2019-11-05
- Primary completion
- 2023-03-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 45 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: Subjects with a clinical definition of knee OA using NICE guidelines: * Age ≥ 45 * Walking related joint pain in the last week that averages ≥ 4 on 11-point numeric rating scale, where 0 = no pain and 10 = worst pain possible * History of knee pain for at least 3 months * Morning stiffness in the morning lasting less than 30 minutes Exclusion Criteria: * Walk with an assistive device * Current use of oral opiates or centrally acting pain medications * History of lower extremity surgery * Underwent an intra-articular knee joint injection in the past 3 months * Suffer from inflammatory arthritis or other conditions that affect lower extremity functions * Currently receiving treatment for their knee and unwilling to stop this treatment for the duration of the study * Currently pregnant * Skin allergies to adhesives
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04148807