Foot Orthoses and Footwear for the Management of Patellofemoral Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Randomized Trial.
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12 Foot orthoses and footwear for the management of patellofemoral
- In-kind support for the footwear 18 utilized in this study was provided by New Balance Australia, and for the foot orthoses by 19 Orthema Australasia and Orthema Switzerland.
- Study feasibility was the primary outcome (e.g. recruitment rate, adherence, 11 adverse events, drop-out rate).
- Between-group effect sizes for patient-reported 20 outcome measures were typically small, while moderate to large within-group response effects 21 were observed in both groups.
4 There was no clinically meaningful difference between footwear and footwear plus foot
- All rights reserved 1 INTRODUCTION 2 3 Worldwide, osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of musculoskeletal pain and disability [1], most 4 frequently affecting the knee [2].
- A sample size of 22 participants per group was established based on 8 feasibility with respect to time and funding [18].
- All participants completed patient-reported outcome measures at baseline, two and four 3 months.
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