Effects of Mulligan and Muscle Energy Techniques on Knee Osteoarthritis.
- Conditions
- chronic knee osteoarthritis.Osteoarthritis of knee
- Registration Number
- IRCT20210121050099N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Abbas Fadhil Taher
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 30
•Patients with Chronic unilateral (preferably) or bilateral (intervention will be to dominant side) knee osteoarthritis confirmed by x-ray, Without ligament pathology or injury (grade II and grade III of Kellegren and Lawrence classification).(50)
•patients are independently mobile.
•BMI must be = 30.
•Visual Analogue Scale must be =4
•Knee Extension lack =20 degrees
•Willingness to participate and follow the treatment schedule.
•Patients will be in study if they have no concomitant disease affecting the knee, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, recent injury, and/or surgery to the knee and had received intra- articular corticosteroid during the last 6 months
•Absent for two or more continuous sessions.
•Patients who have pathological fractures, revision surgeries, associated ipsilateral injuries, and neurovascular disorders will be excluded from the study.
Patients who are not satisfied to continue the treatment.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patients' opinion about thier knees. Timepoint: before first session, after third one and 4 weeks after the last session. Method of measurement: Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Arabic version (Questionnaire).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method