Learn more about the research at the Musculoskeletal Health research domain within the Department of Health Sciences at VU Amsterdam.
Below you can find an overview of some projects within this research domain.
Musculoskeletal Health
Projects
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OCTOPUS-study
The Department of Health Sciences at VU Amsterdam conducted the OCTOPUS study from 2018-2022. This study compared the effect of two physical therapy treatments for people with knee osteoarthritis, namely regular exercise therapy compared with exercise therapy in which the treatment was tailored to three subgroups ('high muscle strength subgroup', 'low muscle strength subgroup' and 'obesity subgroup') and for one of these subgroups ('obesity subgroup') this was supplemented with dietary treatment by a dietician. A total of 335 individuals with knee osteoarthritis participated.
Privacy statement for data from OCTOPUS study
Research data from the OCTOPUS study were reused in the period March-May 2023 for a new analysis within a student study of the Hogeschool Utrecht entitled ‘DRONE Masterthesis Klinische Karakteristieken 0de/1 ste/2 de lijn’. For the former participants in the OCTOPUS study of VU Amsterdam, this privacy statement describes how we handled their personal data collected within the framework of the OCTOPUS study for this new analysis.