Total Knee Replacement (TKR) is the most successful intervention to address pain from knee osteoarthritis. However, most resume a sedentary lifestyle gain weight and subsequently remain at high risk for poor health outcomes after surgery. There is a critical need for people after TKR to adopt an active lifestyle. Outpatient Physical therapy (PT) is an ideal, low-cost setting for a physical activity intervention for people after TKR given that physical therapists are experts at prescribing and personalizing exercises to meet patients' abilities over multiple outpatient visits. Unfortunately, little study has been devoted to the efficacy of a physical therapist delivered physical activity intervention. The objective of this proposal, which builds on significant preliminary data, is to evaluate the preliminary efficacy over 3 months of a physical therapist-delivered physical activity intervention. The intervention starts with providing a Fitbit? monitor at admission to PT. Next, the physical therapist provides face-to-face feedback on current activity levels and recommends step goals personalized to previous activity levels, a process that takes < 5 minutes at each visit. The intervention is integrated into standardized outpatient PT for TKR. Our team's long-term research goal is to test the efficacy of this innovative intervention in a future multi- center clinical trial.

Public Health Relevance

Our proposal is important from a public health perspective because we seek to promote an active lifestyle in people after Total Knee Replacement (TKR), who typically resume a sedentary lifestyle after recovery from surgery. Providing an effective intervention to promote an active lifestyle after TKR is important because of poor health consequences associated with a sedentary lifestyle and the expected burden this growing patient population will place on society. A major innovation of our proposal is that we propose to use physical therapists to deliver the intervention, who are experts at prescribing and personalizing exercises to meet patients' abilities over multiple outpatient visits.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
Type
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
Project #
5R21AR071079-02
Application #
9529516
Study Section
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Clinical Trials Review Committee (AMSC)
Program Officer
Washabaugh, Charles H
Project Start
2017-07-18
Project End
2020-06-30
Budget Start
2018-07-01
Budget End
2019-06-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2018
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Delaware
Department
Other Health Professions
Type
Sch Allied Health Professions
DUNS #
059007500
City
Newark
State
DE
Country
United States
Zip Code
19716
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