Effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered intensive dietary weight loss program combined with exercise in people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity: study protocol for the POWER randomized controlled trial

KL Bennell; SE Jones; RS Hinman; F McManus; KE Lamb; JG Quicke; P Sumithran; J Prendergast; ES George; MA Holden; NE Foster; K Allison

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Effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered intensive dietary weight loss program combined with exercise in people with knee osteoarthritis and overweight or obesity: study protocol for the POWER randomized controlled trial

KL Bennell, SE Jones, RS Hinman, F McManus, KE Lamb, JG Quicke, P Sumithran, J Prendergast, ES George, MA Holden, NE Foster, K Allison

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders | BMC | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1186/s12891-022-05685-z

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Abstract

Background: Obesity is associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Weight loss, alongside exercise, is a recommended treatment for individuals with knee OA and overweight/obesity. However, many patients cannot access weight loss specialists such as dietitians. Innovative care models expanding roles of other clinicians may increase access to weight loss support for people with knee OA. Physiotherapists may be well placed to deliver such support. This two-group parallel, superiority randomized controlled trial aims to compare a physiotherapist-delivered diet and exercise program to an exercise program alone, over 6 months. The primary hypothesis is that the physiotherapist-delivered diet plus ex..

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Funding Acknowledgements

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Program Grant #1091302, Physiotherapy Research Fund Project Grant PG18-004 and University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant 2019. RSH is supported by a National Health & Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship (#1154217). KLB is supported by a National Health & Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (#1174431). None of the funding bodies contributed to the design of the study, nor will they contribute to data collection, analysis, interpretation of data or writing of any manuscripts.