Effect of Exercises on Dynamic Balance in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients.

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Combination Product: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation; Combination Product: Non-weight bearing strengthening exercises; Combination Product: weight bearing strengthening exercises; Combination Product: stretching exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05941117

P.T.REC/012/003919

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a randomized controlled trial which aims to compare the effect of weight bearing exercises and non-weight bearing exercises on the dynamic balance in knee osteoarthritis patients as 60 patients will divided in three groups where one group is control group and others two groups one of them perform weight bearing exercises and the other perform non weight bearing exercises.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patient's age > 50 years.
• Recent radiographs confirming the presence of knee OA, grade II-III (mild to moderate) Kellgren Lawrence (K/L).
• Body mass index (BMI) from 20 to 30 kg/m2.
• Met the American College of Rheumatology clinical criteria for mild to moderate knee OA.
• knee pain > 3 cm on a 10 cm visual analog scale (VAS) on most days of the previous week.
• Bilateral knee osteoarthritis.

Exclusion criteria

• Congenital or acquired inflammatory or neurological (systemic or local) diseases involving the knee.
• Patients who have mental or cognitive illness that interfere their ability to perform the exercises or the evaluation tests.
• Intra articular knee injection of steroids in the past 6 months.
• Patients who had received joint replacement surgery in either Knee or hip.
• Patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
• Patients who received physical therapy sessions on the knee in the past 6 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

weight bearing exercises group

Active Comparator group

Description:

20 patients were assigned to this group with bilateral knees osteoarthritis, they received TENS, stretching exercises and weight bearing strengthening exercises.

Treatment:

Combination Product: stretching exercises

Combination Product: weight bearing strengthening exercises

Combination Product: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

non-weight bearing exercises group

Active Comparator group

Description:

20 patients were assigned to this group with bilateral knees osteoarthritis, they received TENS, stretching exercises and Non-weight bearing strengthening exercises.

Treatment:

Combination Product: stretching exercises

Combination Product: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Combination Product: Non-weight bearing strengthening exercises