Investigating the effect of an exercise program in improving pain and disability of people with knee osteoarthritis

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•Age 18 years or above 18 years
•Fulfills the American College of Rheumatology clinical classification criteria for knee osteoarthritis. In this criteria the presence of knee pain along with at least three of the following six items can classify the condition as knee osteoarthritis:
•oAge> 50 years old
•oMorning stiffness < 30 minutes
•oCrepitus on active knee motion
•oBony tenderness
•oBony enlargement
•oNo palpable warmth of synovium knee joint osteoarthritis
•oLess than or equal to grade 2 (as diagnosed and graded by a Rheumatologist, based on the Kellgren and Lawrence radiological classification)

•Hip/Ankle/ Foot osteoarthritis
•History of neurological, infectious, and systemic diseases, including cerebrovascular disease, spinal
•cord disease, spondylitis, cancer, rheumatologic disorders, which may cause long-term immobilization
•Participants with structural lesions, such as spondylolisthesis (Lumbar spinous process palpation and
•stork test)
•Vertebral bone fracture, visible significant scoliosis or kyphosis or lower limb radiculopathy (as
•confirmed by straight leg raise test to exclude radiculopathy from spinal origin)
•Knee injection within previous three months
•Participants who have prescribed exercise therapy in the past >3 months
•Any history of spinal or lower extremity surgery

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