Effect of Weight Bearing Versus Non-weight Bearing Strengthening Exercises on Dynamic Balance in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients.
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Knee Osteoarthritis
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- change happened in the dynamic balance from the baseline
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
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.
Investigators
Mohamed Mahmoud Eldesoky
MSc, PhD candidate
Cairo University
Eligibility Criteria
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/m
- •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.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
change happened in the dynamic balance from the baseline
Time Frame: one day after the end of treatment
Biodex Balance System which is a device used to measure the balance of a person who stand on the platform of the device that give a measurement called over all stability index where 0 score means the best balance and the largest number indicate bad balance.
Secondary Outcomes
- change happened in the joint angle repositioning from baseline(one day after the end of treatment)
- change happened in pain from the baseline(one day after the end of treatment)