Clinical trial NCT03658915: Validity and Reliability of Smartphone Use in Measuring Joint Position Sense in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
Official title: Validity and Reliability of Smartphone Use in Measuring Joint Position Sense in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis
Keywords: Position sense
Smartphone
Validity
Reliability
Knee osteoarthritis
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-09-06
Enrollment: 33
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Subjects between 40 to 60 years old with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and age-matched healthy control.

Brief summary: This study will investigate the concurrent validity and intra-rater reliability of using smartphone in assessing joint position sense in patient with knee osteoarthritis.

Detailed description: Knee osteoarthritis is the most common arthritis. Such disease is complicated by many musculoskeletal dysfunction such as disturbed joint position sense, which impairs their ability to perform their regular daily activities. As rehabilitation should target impairment in function, it is essential that therapists assess joint sense during baseline and follow-up evaluation of patients to decide on needed therapeutic interventions. Joint position sense can be assessed by various methods such as motion tracking systems and the isokinetic dynamometer, yet these equipment are expensive and are not readily available at regular clinical settings.

Smartphone has been introduced as an assessment tool in rehabilitation of musculoskeletal disorders. For the knee joint, smartphone has been validated for measuring range of motion and joint position sense in healthy population, yet it has never been validated in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Therefore, this study will investigate smartphone validity and reliability as an assessment tool of knee position sense in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient must be referred to the outpatient clinic of the faculty of Physical Therapy and Medicine, Cairo University with a confirmed diagnosis of unilateral or bilateral osteoarthritis of the knee and having one or more of the following criteria (ASo, 2000).
* Morning stiffness for less than 30 minutes.
* Crepitus on active knee movement.
* Bony enlargement either palpable or visible in radiographs.
* Bony tenderness at joint margins.
* Age 40-60 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Steroid injection within 2 months prior to inclusion.
* Presence of neurologic disorders (e.g., stroke, Parkinson's disease, or poliomyelitis). •Presence of other rheumatoid or orthopedic disorders in the lower extremity or spine. •A recent history of a lower extremity fracture with in the past year.
* History of ligament deficiency, such as anterior cruciate ligament or meniscal injury.
* Severe pain with active movement.
* Poor memory or cognitive function.

Primary outcomes:
measure: concurrent validity of smartphone against isokinetic dynamometry in measuring joint position sense.
timeFrame: One day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intrarater reliability of smartphone measurements
timeFrame: 1 week
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dokki
country: Egypt
facility: Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University
Study officials:
affiliation: Cairo University, Faculty of Physical Therapy
name: Aliaa Rehan Youssef, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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