Magnetic Field Therapy Versus Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve-stimulation in Knee Osteoarthritis: a Head-to-head Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- response to physical therapy
研究概览
简要总结
The effectiveness of PEMF in improving physical function among Osteoarthritic (OA) patients remains a topic of debate, leading to the American College of Rheumatology not yet endorsing its use in OA treatment. Therefore, it's essential to investigate PEMF therapy's efficacy in alleviating joint pain, stiffness, and enhancing physical function in knee OA patients Our study objectives were to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of PEMF therapy and to compare its efficacy with TENS in knee OA management.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Investigator)
入排标准
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •We included patients who had knee pain due to knee OA diagnosed according to the American College of Rheumatology including:
- •Knee pain AND presence of at least three of the following 6 criteria:
- •Age > 50 years
- •Morning stiffness < 30 minutes
- •Crepitus during movement
- •Periarticular bone pain
- •Periarticular bone hypertrophy
- •Absence of increased local warmth.
排除标准
- •For both groups, we did not include:
- •Patients with a pacemaker, implantable defibrillator, cochlear implant, or any metal implant contraindicating MRI (knee prosthesis, hip prosthesis, etc.).
- •Pregnant women
- •Patients with an active infection
- •Profound hypoesthesia or thermoalgic sensitivity disorder
- •Poorly vascularized areas: arteritis, phlebitis, ischemia
- •Patients on anti-vitamin K treatment or with a coagulation disorder. Patients with long-term corticosteroid therapy or having a total knee replacement, those who have received therapies for knee osteoarthritis including intra-articular corticosteroid injection or viscosupplementation in the last 4 months, and Patients with knee pain of non-osteoarthritic origin were also not included in the study.
结局指标
主要结局
response to physical therapy
时间窗: one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program
a 20 percent decrease in the total score of WOMAC pain
次要结局
- assessing patients satisfaction(one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program)
- stiffness and function improvement(one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program)
- reduction of pain(one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program)
- Consumption of paracetamol(one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program)
- assessing safety(one week before the beginning and 3 weeks after the finishing of the rehabilitation program)
研究者
RAZGALLAH Emna
medical resident
University Tunis El Manar
