Agility and perturbation training techniques in exercise therapy for reducing pain and improving function in people with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Impairment-based exercise programs have yielded only small to moderate benefits in reducing pain and improving function in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). It has previously been proposed that adding agility and perturbation training to exercise programs for people with knee OA may improve treatment effects for pain and function.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of adding agility and perturbation techniques to standard exercise therapy compared with the standard exercise program alone for people with knee OA.

Design

This was a single-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Setting

The study was conducted in the outpatient physical therapy clinic of a large, university-based health center.

Participants

One

SUBMITTER: Fitzgerald GK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3070919 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature