THERMARTHROSE: Gonarthrosis and Water Cure

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic effect of a thermal treatment on gonarthrosis, with an increase of the number of patients presenting a clinically significant improvement.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Association Francaise pour la Recherche Thermale

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ACR criteria: knee pain and one of the tree following conditions: Age > 50 years, Morning stiffness< 30 minutes and articular crackling.

• osteophytes visible on knee radiography.

• knee radiography less than 3 years old: face, schuss, axial of kneecap cliché.

• Actual gonarthrosis intensity on Visual Analogic Scale > or = 30mm.

Exclusion Criteria:

• arthrosis limited to the femoro-patellar compartments.

• severe depressive syndrome, psychosis.

• Thermal cure less than 6 month before.

• Contra-indication or predictable inability to tolerate thermal cure.

• Profession lied to hydrotherapy.

• previous knee treatments:

• massage, physiotherapy and acupuncture since less than 1 month;

• infiltration since less than 3 months;

• NSAI since less than 5 days;

• analgesic since less than 12 hours;

• modification in the medicinal anti-arthrosis treatment since less than 3 months.