Effects of adding a diet intervention to exercise on hip osteoarthritis pain: protocol for the ECHO randomized controlled trial

M Hall; RS Hinman; G Knox; L Spiers; P Sumithran; NJ Murphy; F McManus; KE Lamb; F Cicuittini; DJ Hunter; SP Messier; KL Bennell

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Effects of adding a diet intervention to exercise on hip osteoarthritis pain: protocol for the ECHO randomized controlled trial

M Hall, RS Hinman, G Knox, L Spiers, P Sumithran, NJ Murphy, F McManus, KE Lamb, F Cicuittini, DJ Hunter, SP Messier, KL Bennell

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders | BMC | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12891-022-05128-9

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Abstract

Background: Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of musculoskeletal pain. Exercise is a core recommended treatment. Despite some clinical guidelines also recommending weight loss for hip OA, there is no evidence from randomised controlled trials (RCT) to substantiate these recommendations. This superiority, 2-group, parallel RCT will compare a combined diet and exercise program to an exercise only program, over 6 months. Methods: One hundred people with symptomatic and radiographic hip OA will be recruited from the community. Following baseline assessment, participants will be randomly allocated to either, i) diet and exercise or; ii) exercise only. Participants in the diet and exercis..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (#1774431) and Centre of Research Excellence Grant (#1079078). MH is supported by a NHMRC Investigator Grant Emerging Leader 1 (#1172928). PS is supported by an NHMRC Investigator Grant (#1178482). RSH is supported by NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (#1154217). KLB is supported by NHMRC Investigator Grant Leadership 2 (#1174431). DJH is supported by an NHMRC Investigator Grant Leadership 2 (#1194737). FMC is supported by an NHMRC Investigator Grant (APP1194829). The funding sources had no role in the design of this study and will not have any role during its execution, analyses, interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results.