Comparison of hydrotherapy anddry land exercise associated with lasertherapy on pain relief, stretching and daily activities in elderly patients with knee osteoarthritis
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- osteoarthrosisC05.550.114.606
- Registration Number
- RBR-45kv2n
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade do Sagrado Coração
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruitment completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Volunteers knee osteoarthritis; both genders; age between 60 and 80 years.
Exclusion Criteria
Volunteers with severe cardiac and respiratory diseases; fibromyalgia; epilepsy; knee replacement or hip; inability to walk independently; otitis; sores on the skin; mycoses; hydrophobia.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method It is expected to find in both groups of intervention programs increased in flexibility through Wells test (around 5 cm), decrease in pain assessed by visual analogue scale, reductions in scores on the WOMAC index / Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (from 20 to 30 points in most volunteers). In the control group it is expected that there are no changes in the values of any variable analyzed.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The results in both intervention groups are statistically better (considering p greater than 0.05) than the control group, the following variables: pain assessed by visual analogue scale, activities of daily living assessed by WOMAC index, flexibility through bank Wells, after the end of treatment.