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Massage Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee

NCT00322244 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2011-02-01

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Summary

The study is a randomized, controlled clinical trial that investigates the efficacy ogf massage therapy for 66 patients with pain secondary to osteoarthritis of the knee. It is a wait-list design where subjects and randomly assigned to either Group A or Group B. Group A receives two months of massage while Group B is wait-listed, receives two months of usual care. At the conclusion of the wait period, Group B receives two months of massage. In all cases, subjects continue to receive conventional medical care for their OA symptoms.

Outcome measures include a WOMAC questionnaire, a visual analog pain scale, time to walk fifty feet and range of motion of the knee (using a goniometer). A research assistant, competent in appropriate subject assessment obtains the outcome measures. Change in medication use is tracked by the use of patient diaries. Assessments of subjects, occurs at baseline, and week 8 and 16 in both the intervention and control groups.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Massage Therapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yale University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Adam I. Perlman, MD, MPH · University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-01-31
Completion
2003-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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