Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) Project Treatment Versus Conventional Physical Therapy in the Treatment of Knee OA Patients

Launched by MEIR MEDICAL CENTER · Dec 10, 2011

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This research is divided into o Intervention and control groups. Research Population is 60 Patients (30 patients to each arm), aged 60 and above suffering from OA of the knees and admitted to physical therapy .Intervention group patients were treated by the concept of "Knee Osteoarthritis Project". This was first applied in middle of 2010 and its effectiveness was never tested.

The main idea was to make patients more active, to encourage them to do exercise at home, increase their motivation and self efficacy. In addition, patients received prescription for TENS device (Transcutaneous elec...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 60+ years old independent men and women,who suffer from OA in the knee and was referred to Physiotherapy.
• • ability to write and read properly in Hebrew
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • OA secondary to systematic disease (Rheumatoid arthritis)
• • steroids injections to the knee in the past 3 months.
• • orthopaedic surgery to lower limbs.
• • neurological deficit.
• • symptomatic OA in the hip or ankle