Effects of impairment-based exercise on performance of specific self-reported functional tasks in individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known regarding how impairment-based exercises may improve performance of specific functional tasks in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Objective

The purpose of this study was to compare the probability that participation in an impairment-based exercise program or the same impairment-based program supplemented with agility and perturbation training will improve patient-reported function on specific functional tasks.

Design

This study was a secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial.

Setting

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

Participants

One hundred eighty-three people with knee OA (122 women, 61 men) participated.

Interventions

Pa

SUBMITTER: Teixeira PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3229042 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature