Telephone Coaching to Enhance a Home‐Based Physical Activity Program for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Objective To investigate whether simultaneous telephone coaching improves the clinical effectiveness of a physiotherapist‐prescribed home‐based physical activity program for knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods A total of 168 inactive adults ages ≥50 years with knee pain on a numeric rating scale ≥4 (NRS; range 0–10) and knee OA were recruited from the community and randomly assigned to a physiotherapy (PT) and coaching group (n = 84) or PT‐only (n...