Telerehabilitation Strategies for Knee Osteoarthritis: What a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Found for Pain and Physical Function

Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who treat adults with knee osteoarthritis and who deliver, support, or are considering home-based and remotely monitored programs.

Licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants in outpatient orthopedics, home health, hospital-based rehabilitation, and telehealth programs. The content is also relevant to rehabilitation managers evaluating remote care pathways for osteoarthritis.

Intended audience

Physical Therapy

Level

Introductory

Delivery format

Online, asynchronous, self-paced course: interactive reading with audio or video, and a scored post-test.

Based on

This course reports the findings of a single published systematic review and meta-analysis. All statements, figures, and conclusions in this course trace to that article.

Xiang W, Wang JY, Ji BJ, Li LJ, Xiang H. Effectiveness of Different Telerehabilitation Strategies on Pain and Physical Function in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2023;25:e40735. doi:10.2196/40735. PMID: 37982411. PMCID: PMC10728785.

Scope note

The course does not add recommendations beyond the source. Where the authors themselves drew conclusions or urged caution, those statements are attributed to them.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe what the systematic review and meta-analysis studied, including the population of adults with knee osteoarthritis and the comparison against conventional treatment or usual care.
2. State the review's findings for pain and for physical function, and explain what the authors concluded about differences among the individual telerehabilitation strategies.
3. Name the limitations the authors reported and explain how those limits shape the confidence they placed in their own conclusions.

1. Start Here: How This Course Works
2. Podcast: Telerehabilitation for Knee Osteoarthritis, Explained (about ten minutes)
3. Knee Osteoarthritis and the Access Problem Behind Telerehabilitation
4. How the Review Was Built: Searches, Trials, and Eight Delivery Strategies
5. What the Pooled Trials Showed for Pain and for Physical Function
6. Where the Evidence Runs Thin: Limits the Authors Reported
7. What the Authors Said This Could Mean for Home-Based Knee Care
8. Key Takeaways
9. Post-Test and Course Evaluation

Quinn Millington, PT, DPT, ECS is the instructor of record: the licensed clinician who reviewed this course and signed off on it. The name and credentials print on the certificate.

Disclosures. This course was developed by The ConEd Solution, which has a financial interest in its sale. No outside funding or sponsorship was received. The instructor of record has no affiliation with the authors of the source publication or their institutions.

This course awards 0.5 contact hours (30 min). How you earn them:

1. Complete the course. Every lesson, in order.
2. Pass the post-test. Score 80% or higher. Retakes are allowed.
3. Complete the evaluation. A short form rating each learning objective and the course.
4. Download your certificate. It is issued on completion and stays available in My Account.

The episode time is its measured length. Reading, post-test and evaluation times are estimates.

This course is designed to satisfy the quality requirements state boards set for continuing education. Requirements vary by state, and confirming that a course fits your renewal is up to you. Each state’s own acceptance statement is in the credit panel on this page.

1. This course reports the findings of a single published systematic review and meta-analysis. All statements, figures, and conclusions in this course trace to that article.
2. Xiang W, Wang JY, Ji BJ, Li LJ, Xiang H. Effectiveness of Different Telerehabilitation Strategies on Pain and Physical Function in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2023;25:e40735. doi:10.2196/40735. PMID: 37982411. PMCID: PMC10728785.
3. Scope note
4. The course does not add recommendations beyond the source. Where the authors themselves drew conclusions or urged caution, those statements are attributed to them.