Intensive Gait Training for Older Adults with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis.
Intensive Gait Training for Older Adults with Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis.
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DOI:
10.1097/phm.0000000000000264
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发表时间:
2015-10
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Yack HJ
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作者:
Segal NA;Glass NA;Teran-Yengle P;Singh B;Wallace RB;Yack HJ
To determine whether individualized gait training is more effective than usual care for reducing mobility disability and pain in individuals with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). Adults age ≥60 with symptomatic knee OA and mobility limitations were randomized to physical therapist-directed gait training on an instrumented treadmill, with biofeedback individualized to optimize knee movements, biweekly for 3 months or usual care (control). Mobility disability was defined by LLFDI Basic Lower Limb Function score (primary); limitations by timed 400m walk, chair-stand, and stair-climb tests at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months; and symptoms by the Knee Injury/Osteoarthritis Outcome Score. Analyses used longitudinal mixed models. There were no significant inter-group differences between the 35 gait-training (74.3% women; age 69.7±8.2 years) and 21 control (57.1% women; age 68.9±6.5 years) participants at baseline. At 3 months, gait-training participants had greater improvement in mobility disability (4.3±1.7; p=0.0162) and symptoms (8.6±4.1; p=0.0420). However, there were neither intergroup differences detected for pain, 400m walk, chair-stand or stair-climb times at 3 months nor for any outcomes at 6 or 12 months. Compared with usual care, individualized gait-training resulted in immediate improvements in mobility disability and knee symptoms in adults with symptomatic knee OA, but these effects were not sustained.