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Prospective comparison study on efficacy between physiotherapy and kinesitherapy for knee osteoarthritis in improvement of clinical symptoms and degeneratio

Phase 3
Conditions
Knee osteoarthritis
Registration Number
JPRN-UMIN000022060
Lead Sponsor
Akita hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete: follow-up complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
90
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are the patients with goat or collagen disease as underlying disease, and the patients with bone fracture, acute knee joint edema, or surgery such as knee arthroplasty.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Clinical symptoms are assessed with the Japanese Knee Osteoarthritis Measure and Japanese Orthopaedic Association score for osteoarthritis knees before rehabilitation, 3 months and 1 year after the rehabilitation.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Knee range of motion, leg tightness are measured, and knee joint synovitis, joint edema, quadriceps muscle volume are evaluated using ultrasound device before rehabilitation, 3 months and 1 year after the rehabilitation. Knee X-rays are performed before rehabilitation and 1 year after the rehabilitation to evaluate osteoarthritis grade.
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