Effectiveness of physiotherapy resources in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial with therapeutic exercise, ear acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- knee osteoarthritisMusculoskeletal - Osteoarthritis
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12610000232033
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 30
Inclusion Criteria
To participate in the study, subjects should be women with clinical diagnose of knee osteoarthritis according to American College of Rheumatology. Besides they should have felt any pain in their knee for the last 6 months and 14 days previously allocation in this study.
Exclusion Criteria
Subjects were excluded if they had history of lower extremity surgery with or not prosthesis, any type of drug abuse, corticoid application in the last 3 months, neurologic disease or another orthopaedic and rheumatic affection.
Besides subjects were excluded if they were unable to attend the number of treatment sessions established by researchers previously, or missed two treatment sessions, sequentially.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain by Western Ontario and MacMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC)[at pre-intervention, post-intervention and at one month follow up];Self related physical function by Western Ontario and MacMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC)[at pre-intervention, post-intervention and at one month follow up]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quantitative physical funtion by step test[at pre-intervention, post-intervention and at one month follow up]