Recruiting

Home Exercise & Virtual PT

Sponsor:

University of Florida

Code:

NCT05994833

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Complication

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

VPT

Study Details

Brief summary:

This study will compare standard of care of home exercise for running rehabilitation to the combined treatment of home exercise with an individually provided four-session virtual physical therapy support program intervention on pain and physical function movements (controlled dual and single leg squat and lateral hopping in individuals post running injury. These collective findings will help provide new evidence of the responses to an individually provided virtual PT interventions among runners.

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Complication

Study ID

NCT05994833

Start date

Aug 10, 2023

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Jun, 2030

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug, 2029

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age of 18 to 65 years
  • Regularly running at least 12 miles a week prior to development of musculoskeletal complaint.
  • Free of surgical history of surgery to either lower limb
  • No history of major bony injury to the lower limb such as traumatic fracture, within the past 12 months
  • Presence of chronic lower body running related injuries (e.g., patellofemoral pain, IT band syndrome, Achilles tendinitis, chronic lower back pain after running)
  • Body mass index (BMI) <=35 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant women
  • < 18 or 65 years
  • BMI >35 kg/m2
  • Mental disablement (down's syndrome or dementia)
  • Any persons incarcerated, on parole, on probation, or awaiting trial.
  • Individuals with neurologic or degenerative musculoskeletal disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, muscular dystrophy, or Parkinson's disease.
  • Current acute running related or sport related injury (e.g., ankle sprain, hip labral tear, ACL strain during an event or run)
  • Individuals with a history of strong risk factors for poor fracture healing, such as uncontrolled diabetes, chemotherapy, end-stage organ disease, dialysis or smoking
  • Unwilling to forgo your potential in-person therapy visits for a month after enrollment

Study Design

Enrollment

85 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Other

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: paper-based standard care exercise program

experimental: VPT

Interventions

VPT

The VPT will be comprised of weekly virtual visits with the participant for one month. During the visits, the physical therapist will review the exercises that were prescribed, adherence, provide feedback to the participant as they execute the exercises onscreen and make corrections, make any progression or adjustments to the exercises, review running cues they learned from the testing session and answer any questions. The therapist will also review any new activities that are initiated during the previous week (to control for confounders), changes in musculoskeletal pain and participation in running volume.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change from baseline numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) at 4 weeks [ Time Frame: Visits 6; one month post enrollment ]
  • Change from baseline numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) at 6 months [ Time Frame: Visits 7; six months post enrollment ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Sharareh PhD, PT

3522738453sharareh75@ufl.edu

Locations

University of Florida College of medicine- Dept of PM&R

Recruiting

Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32607

Contacts

Sharareh Sharififar, PhD, PT

352-273-8453sharareh75@ufl.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of Florida

Last update posted

May 15, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Florida on 2026-05-15.