Rachel K Nelligan, Rana S Hinman, Jessica Kasza, Sarah Schwartz, Alexander Kimp, Lou Atkins, Kim L Bennell
BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly prevalent condition. People with knee OA often have other co-morbidities such as obesity. Exercise is advocated in all clinical guidelines for the management of knee OA. It is often undertaken as a home-based program, initially prescribed by a physiotherapist or other qualified health care provider. However, adherence to home-based exercise is often poor, limiting its ability to meaningfully change clinical symptoms of pain and/or physical function. While the efficacy of short message services (SMS) to promote adherence to a range of health behaviours has been demonstrated, its ability to promote home exercise adherence in people with knee OA ..
Funding has been provided by the National Health and Medical Research Council (Grant #1091302), who is not involved in study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation or manuscript preparation. RSH is supported by a National Health & Medical Research Council Fellowship (#1154217). KLB is supported by a National Health & Medical Research Council Fellowship (#1058440).