Yoga for Adolescent Knee Pain
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Adolescent atraumatic anterior knee pain is a common yet cumbersome diagnosis that is currently managed with home exercises and physical therapy. The goal of this project is to present patients with an alternative treatment in the form of yoga available in an online video format. This new treatment, in the form of online yoga videos, may be more preferred for some patients and allow for higher compliance with home exercises aimed at treating anterior knee pain.
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Detailed Description
Adolescent atraumatic anterior knee pain is a common yet cumbersome diagnosis that is currently managed with home exercises and physical therapy. The goal of this project is to test the compliance and efficacy of an alternative treatment in the form of yoga available in an online video format. This study will help further the treatment understanding of one of the most common patient clinical presentations, atraumatic anterior knee pain in adolescents. This is a cumbersome patient presentation that is frustrating for both the patient and treating team in that there is no concrete treatment algorithm that works for everyone. Online yoga videos may be more preferred for some patients and allow for higher compliance with home exercises aimed at treating anterior knee pain. With this study, the investigators hope to ensure that the yoga videos provide equal, or more, pain relief and flexibility at the completion of the program.
It is hypothesized that patients completing the yoga program will have equivalent or greater flexibility, compliance, and pain relief when compared with current treatment recommendations for anterior knee pain.
This study aims to assess the success of a video-based eight-week home yoga program at improving compliance, increasing flexibility and functionality of knee movements. Compliance will be tracked through recorded access to the specific YouTube videos hosted through the CTPO YouTube Channel. Anterior knee pain patients will be given a link to two yoga videos and will be asked to do them at home, or wherever convenient for 8 weeks, 3-4 times a week.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Experimental: Yoga study group This is the only arm of the study. The patients will be given yoga videos to do at home for 8 weeks as a treatment for anterior knee pain. |
Behavioral: Yoga
The patients will receive links to two yoga videos. They will do each of these videos at home for 4 weeks.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Patient Flexibility [Baseline and 8 weeks]
Popliteal angle to test hamstring flexibility. On a scale of 0-90. A popliteal angle of 90 would mean very tight hamstrings. Prone heel to buttocks measurement will be taken to determine how close the patient can get their heel to buttocks. It will be measured in inches. A larger measurement means less flexibility. 0" is an ideal measurement.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Number of views of yoga videos [Log will be recorded weekly for 8 weeks.]
Patient will keep a log of the number of times they do the videos, and we will use YouTube analytics to confirm the number of views.
- International Knee Documentation Committee (pedi-IKDC) Survey Score [baseline, 8 weeks and 4 months]
Patient Reported Outcome survey. On a scale of 0-100. 100 means knee is fully functional.
- Yoga video satisfaction survey [8 weeks and 4 months]
Satisfaction questions as defined by study team on a scale of 0-5. To determine if the yoga videos were useful to the patients.
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information Systems (PROMIS) pain interference scale [baseline, 8 weeks and 4 months]
Measures the extent that pain is interfering with the patient's daily lifestyle. Pain is measured on a T-scale. 50 is the median. 20-55 is considered within the normal limits. 70+ is severe.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children with non-structural anterior knee pain
Exclusion Criteria:
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Any intra-articular injuries
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No access to internet
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Non-english speaking
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics | Austin | Texas | United States | 78723 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- University of Texas at Austin
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Matthew D Ellington, MD, University of Texas at Austin, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
- Donohue B, Miller A, Beisecker M, Houser D, Valdez R, Tiller S, Taymar T. Effects of brief yoga exercises and motivational preparatory interventions in distance runners: results of a controlled trial. Br J Sports Med. 2006 Jan;40(1):60-3; discussion 60-3. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2005.020024.
- Galantino ML, Galbavy R, Quinn L. Therapeutic effects of yoga for children: a systematic review of the literature. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2008 Spring;20(1):66-80. doi: 10.1097/PEP.0b013e31815f1208.
- Hainsworth KR, Liu XC, Simpson PM, Swartz AM, Linneman N, Tran ST, Medrano GR, Mascarenhas B, Zhang L, Weisman SJ. A Pilot Study of Iyengar Yoga for Pediatric Obesity: Effects on Gait and Emotional Functioning. Children (Basel). 2018 Jul 4;5(7):92. doi: 10.3390/children5070092.
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