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Using Gait Modification to Treat Knee Osteoarthritis in Saudi Arabia: Possibilities and Acceptability.

NCT06306079 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2024-03-12

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Summary

A variety of biomechanical gait modification interventions can elevate knee loading and improve knee symptoms in knee osteoarthritis patients. However, there was a lack of acceptability and adherence regarding modification interventions without any explanation.

Thus, this study investigates the feasibility and acceptability of foot insoles as a gait modification tool among Saudi Arabian knee osteoarthritis patients and physiotherapists.

This study aims to answer the following:

* Which gait modification intervention is most likely to be implemented in Saudi Arabia (SA) clinical practice, taking context, patients' clinical and research evidence into consideration?
* In Saudi Arabia, can this proposed foot-insole intervention be implemented? Is there sufficient experience among physiotherapists regarding gait modification to deliver it, and will patients engage with it? How can KOA rehabilitation outcomes be evaluated in the future?

The participants will be conducted over three phases:

1. The patients' interview and therapists' focus group discussion will be used to examine KOA patients' and clinicians' perspectives on enabling and accepting gait modifications in phase 1.
2. The feasibility study will explore how a small number of KOA patients tolerate gait modifications and consider the most relevant outcome measures, such as pain and function, in phase (2).
3. A small group of knee osteoarthritis patients and their physiotherapists who participated in phase (2) will be asked to participate in a descriptive survey in phase (3). To examine the acceptability and feasibility of the study intervention in phase (2).

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis, Knee
  • Pain
  • Biomechanical Lesion

Interventions

DEVICE

Lateral Wedge insole

Insoles with lateral wedges are placed in patients' shoes to control biomechanical knee loading on the medial side of the knee. Insoles with lateral wedges are designed to be thinner on the inside (medially of the foot) and thicker on the outside (laterally of the foot) to relieve knee biomechanical loading parameters.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Nottingham

    collaborator OTHER

  • King Khalid University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Abdullah Al Assiri, PhD student · University of Nottingham

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-13
Primary Completion
2022-10-15
Completion
2022-12-30

Countries

  • Saudi Arabia

Study Locations

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