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
Name Time Method 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
Name Time Method 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.