1/2022 until 6/2025

Osteoarthritis in the hip and knee joints primarily causes pain and limitations in physical function. Osteoarthritis is primarily treated with exercise therapy and education, but there is a lack of widely available services. To counteract this, scientists want to find out how effective a digitally accompanied training and education program can be compared to a classic therapy and how such a program can be implemented.

"SmArt-E" - smartphone-assisted osteoarthritis training and education - is the name of the study, whose participants will initially train and learn under physiotherapeutic guidance and later continue the program independently with the help of an app. SmArt-E is being conducted at several participating study centers in Germany with a total of 330 participants.

The Department of Therapeutic Sciences I at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg is one of the three study centers.