Treatment for Osgood Schlatter Patients With a Physiotherapy Program

Treatment for Osgood Schlatter Patients With a Physiotherapy Program "TrOPhy-Study"

This study is to compare the effect of a physiotherapy program to usual care treatment in patients with Osgood Schlatter disease (OSD). Patients will be randomly assigned into two groups. Group 1 will receive the physiotherapy program with myofascial massage, while group 2 (usual care group USC) will receive usual care treatment.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Uni- or bilateral OSD
• ability to follow instructions
• sufficient knowledge of German
• availability: can participate in two exercise sessions per week for a period of 8 weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

• any history of knee surgery
• medication intake affecting the knee
• unstable fractures
• neurological disorders
• systematic diseases
• already in physiotherapeutic treatment because of the knee
• not possible to do any physiotherapy sessions at the Universitäts-Kinderspital Basel (UKBB)