THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF INTERFERENTIAL CURRENT AND EXERCISE-THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
Phase 1
- Conditions
- knee osteoarthritis.
- Registration Number
- IRCT2016021624149N26
- Lead Sponsor
- student research committee of shiraz university of medical sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 32
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria were the age between 45 and 65 years, bilateral knee pain lasting at least for 6 months, morning stiffness lasting more than 30 minutes, crepitation during active knee movements and radiographic findings of KOA (such as joint space narrowing and osteophyte)
Patients with the history of intra-articular steroid injection in the previous 6 months, and fracture, arthroplasty or surgery in the lower limbs were excluded from this study, as were subjects with cardio-pulmonary dysfunction, malignancy, lower limb’s acute inflammatory conditions and radicular pain, patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and patients who had received physiotherapy treatments at the previous four months
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain intensity. Timepoint: before and after intervention. Method of measurement: numeric rating scale (NRS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Functional activities. Timepoint: before and after intervention. Method of measurement: WOMAC quastionaire.