Educational Program for Knee Osteoarthritis

Federal University of São Paulo

Status

Completed

Conditions

Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments

Device: Transcutaneous Nerve Electro-Stimulation

Other: Educational Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03588195

CEP UNIFESP 458293

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sixty patients with a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis, aged between 40 and 80 years, of both genders were included. The patients were divided into: experimental group that carried out an educational program - 5 consecutive sessions held once a week, with a duration of 60 minutes each class and at the end of the last class, a booklet was delivered for each patient with all the contents of the classes and the Transcutaneous Nerve Electro-Stimulation device - being performed twice weekly, for 5 weeks for 40 minutes each session; and control group who only underwent treatment with the Transcutaneous Nerve Electro-Stimulation in the same parameters as experimental group. The evaluations were performed at the beginning of the treatment, 4 and 12 weeks after the beginning of the treatment using a numerical pain scale; WOMAC; IDATE and SF-36 questionnaires; and 6-minute walk test.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

40 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Diagnosis of knee Osteoarthritis by American College of Rheumatology criteria;
Age between 40 and 80 years;
Both genders;
Numerical Pain Scale in the knee between 3 and 8 centimeters on a scale of 0 to 10 centimeters.

Exclusion criteria

Systemic inflammatory diseases or any condition that prevents the practice of physical activity;
Regular physical activity started or changed in the last twelve weeks;
No ambulation;
Joint injection in the knee in the previous twelve weeks;
Previous knee surgery or surgery planned for the next twenty-four weeks;
Physiotherapy in the last twelve weeks;
Other disease that affects the lower limbs;
Open wounds at the electrode application site;
Planned trip in the next twelve weeks.