Context Effects in Exercise Therapy for Knee and/or Hip Pain

"Different physical surroundings of exercise may affects the patients differently and consequently influence the effect of exercise. The exercise rooms are different from each other on parameters such as source of lighting, acoustics, materials and decorations.~The differences with the physical surroundings of exercise is the primary intervention for this study."

The neuromuscular exercise program is the same across the two exercise groups. Consequently, this intervention is not the primary intervention of this study. The exercise program is based on the previously reported NEMEX program designed for patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis, originally published by Ageberg et al, 2010 in BMCMusculoskeletal Disorders.