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Osteoarthritis, KneePhase 4PERIPATEINCT05761015

Helping Osteoarthritis Patients to Walk With NSAID

A Phase 4 study testing therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation program in people with Osteoarthritis, Knee and Osteoarthritis, Hip, run by University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand at 1 site in France.

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Trial summary

There is a lack of effective analgesic treatments to help walking patients with painful hip/knee osteoarthritis. Our team therefore imagined a new strategy lying on a multimodal rehabilitation walking program with the help of a transient intake of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 50 to 70 years
What is being tested?
therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation program
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
55 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
14 Dec 2023to Apr 2028
Phase
Phase 4
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 50 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Uni- or bilateral hip or knee idiopathic osteoarthrosis (ACR criteria, Kellgren-Lawrence grade 2 or more on recent X-ray), responsible for pain since 3 at least months, and pain at walking which intensity is at least 4/10 on a numerical rating scale.
  • Less than 3 relevant walks (at least 20 minutes or 1000 km) a week.
  • Ability to understand and to follow the protocol, and to answer the questionnaires

Who cannot join

  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding
  • Legal protection
  • Body weight < 40 kg or underweight
  • Body weight >120 kg or obesity
  • Unability to walk, or unability to walk without support devices (sticks, crutches, orthoses and knee pads are allowed)
  • Secondary osteoarthrosis (rheumatism, septic arthritis, recent osteonecrosis, hemochromatosis, gout, acromegalia…).
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  • Concomitant general bone disease (Paget, Reiter…).
  • Concomitant and relevant painful disease else than due to osteoarthrosis (e.g. neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia…)
  • Previous recent intervention (e.g. surgery, arthroscopy, joint infiltration) expected to relief osteoarthrosis pain throughout the study period.
  • Planned intervention similar to those abovementioned, during the study period.
  • Recent initiation of any new analgesic treatment (including systemic steroids).
  • Planned initiation of any program expected to relief osteoarthrosis pain during the study period, such as physiotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy…).
  • Planned major surgery during the study period.
  • Current cancer disease.
  • Immunosuppression.
  • Autoimmune disease.
  • Concomitant topical or systemic NSAID treatment.
  • Chronic strong opioid intake.
  • Concomitant insulin therapy.
  • Any absolute or relevant contraindication to NSAIDs or acetaminophen, according to the French drug agency

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

France1 site, 1 recruiting
  • CHU Clemront-Ferrand

    Clermont-Ferrand

    Lise Laclautre, 04 73 75 11 95, promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr

    Christian DUALE

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: A Rehabilitation Walking Program With the Help of a Transient Intake of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug for Patients With Painful Hip/Knee Osteoarthritis - A Pilot Cohort Study With Objectives of Short Walks in the Real Life.

There is a lack of effective analgesic treatments to help walking patients with painful hip/knee osteoarthritis. Our team therefore imagined a new strategy lying on a multimodal rehabilitation walking program with the help of a transient intake of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). NSAIDs are indeed known to act specifically on pain at movement, but their continuous intake would induce unacceptable side effects. To optimize the benefit/risk balance, the molecule to be chosen must fit to the patient's profile, and its intake should cover only the period of interest, i.e. planned walks. Our multimodal rehabilitation program will also include physical techniques such as appropriate footwear, a patient's education aiming at reducing fear/avoidance and spotting side effects of NSAIDs, and a prescription frame to avoid any overdosing.

This clinical study is a single-center, non-randomized, open label, one-arm trial, using drugs prescribed according to their label (i.e. osteoarthritis pain), pending a reinforced monitoring of side effects.

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The primary endpoint is to evaluate efficacy and tolerance of a tailored and transient administration of NSAID within a rehabilitation walking program in patients with painful hip/knee osteoarthritis.

Secondary endpoints are to evaluate the adherence to the program and the factors influencing adherence; to identify the less well tolerated conditions of treatment (one condition being one molecule for one patient profile); to identify the factors of success among a set of baseline demographic, morphometric and psychometric variables; and to study the role of central sensitization (assessed by temporal summation) on the efficacy of treatment.

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Study schedule:

  • Inclusion visit (V0): check of the eligibility criteria, explanation of the protocol, plan for a podiatric consultation, baseline questionnaires, and delivery of diary to collect efficacy outcomes.
  • Observation time (4 weeks): baseline measurement of efficacy outcomes (physical activity and pain at walk), podiatric consultation and improvement of footwear (including orthosis or soles).
  • Pre-intervention visit (V1) : collection of self-reported outcomes, measurement of temporal summation, 6-min walk test before and after NSAID test *, plan for the first 6-week intervention period and delivery of diary to collect efficacy and tolerance outcomes.
  • Intermediate within-intervention visit (after 6 weeks): collection of self-reported outcomes, blood sampling (biological tolerance outcomes), plan for the second 6-week intervention period and delivery of diary to collect efficacy and tolerance outcomes.
  • End-of-study visit: collection of self-reported outcomes, blood sampling (biological tolerance outcomes), and collection of last efficacy outcomes (anxiety, depression, kinesiophobia, global impression of change).
  • The patient will undergo two 6-min walk tests at the pre-intervention visit, one before and one 45 min. after oral administration of the NSAID. The patient will be considered as responsive to the NSAID if one of the following criteria occurs: a 15% increase (or more) of the time-to-first pain at walk, self-defined as bothering; a 1-point decrease (or more) of pain intensity (out of 10) throughout the test; or a 15% increase (or more) of the walked distance, if this was < 200 m at the first test. Only patients responsive to the NSAID will continue the trial.

The sequence of successes will be treated in Bayesian analyses. Sequential analyses with be conducted stepwise. At each step, the decision to stop or to keep going will be taken, until a maximum of 50 cases eligible for analysis.

  • 1st step (N=20): stop for efficacy if more than 11 successes; stop for non-efficacy if less than 6 successes; continuation otherwise (20 supplementary patients);
  • 2nd step (N=40): stop for efficacy if more than 17 successes; stop for non-efficacy if less than 16 successes; continuation otherwise (20 supplementary patients);
  • 3rd step (N=50): efficacy if more than 21 successes; non-efficacy otherwise
Being tested
therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation program
Keywords
Osteoarthritis, Knee, Osteoarthritis, Hip, pain at movement, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, acetaminophen, paracetamol, personalized medicine, pharmacovigilance
Medical subject headings
Osteoarthritis, Knee, Osteoarthritis, Hip, Chronic Pain

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation programDrug

    The prescribed NSAID molecule shall be chosen according to the patient's risk profile:

    • gastric/duodenal risk: age >65, history of ulcer with remission, history of inflammatory event, current low-dose acetylsalicylic acid treatment ;
    • cardiovascular risk (according to Agostino scale \& SCORE);

    The molecule with therefore be:

    • no risk: niflumic acid, 250 mg per intake;
    • gastric/duodenal risk only: diclofenac, 50-100 mg per intake, plus lansoprazole;
    • cardiovascular risk only: ketoprofen, 50-100 mg per intake;
    • double risk: ibuprofen, 200-400 mg per intake, plus lansoprazole. For the walk test, the highest dose of diclofenac or ketoprofen will be used. Then, the patient will be free to half the dose if pain relief is achieved so.

    One gram of acetaminophen will be added to any NSAID intake. The number of intakes will be limited to twice a day (morning and evening) and to 10 times a week.

Study groups in NCT05761015
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
InterventionExperimentalthere is only one intervention arm and no control arm; the Bayesian analysis will be conducted under hypothetical estimates of superiority vs. control.
Receives: Drug: therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation program

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Success

    success of the therapeutic program (defined by a 30%-increase (or more) of the monthly number of target moves from the baseline observation values, with no treatment discontinuation for NSAID side effects)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

Secondary outcomes (13)
  1. Self-declared physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)

  2. Self-declared physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 6 weeks

  3. Self-declared physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

  4. Actual physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Number of steps per day assessed by pedometer

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)

  5. Actual physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Number of steps per day assessed by pedometer

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)+ 6 weeks

  6. Actual physical activity (efficacy outcome)

    Number of steps per day assessed by pedometer

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

  7. Pain at walk during the two last weeks (efficacy outcome)

    Visual Analogic Scale VAS (11-point numerical rating scale (from 0 = "no pain" to 10) "the worst pain imaginable")

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)

  8. Pain at walk during the two last weeks (efficacy outcome)

    Visual Analogic Scale VAS (11-point numerical rating scale (from 0 = "no pain" to 10) "the worst pain imaginable")

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 6 weeks

  9. Pain at walk during the two last weeks (efficacy outcome)

    Visual Analogic Scale VAS (11-point numerical rating scale (from 0 = "no pain" to 10) "the worst pain imaginable")

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)+ 12 weeks

  10. Patient's Global Impression of Change (efficacy outcome)

    7-item scale

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

  11. kinesiophobia (efficacy outcome)

    Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

  12. level of anxious state (efficacy outcome)

    Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks

  13. level of depressive state (efficacy outcome)

    Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS)

    Measured: V1 (pre-intervention visit)+ 12 weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Mar 2023
  2. Study start14 Dec 2023
  3. Primary completionApr 2028 (estimated)
  4. Study completionApr 2028 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Model description
cohort
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
55 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05761015
Sponsor's protocol ID
RBHP 2022 DUALE
Acronym
PERIPATEI
Status last verified
Feb 2026
First submitted
27 Feb 2023
Last updated
27 Feb 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 4 study testing therapeutic program including intermittent drug intake and multimodal rehabilitation program in people with Osteoarthritis, Knee and Osteoarthritis, Hip, run by University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand at 1 site in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 20 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Feb 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 4 studies take place after a treatment is approved, to learn more about its long-term benefits and risks in everyday use.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Lise Laclautre (04 73 75 11 95, promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Success (time frame: V1 (pre-intervention visit) + 12 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Feb 2026.

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