The Video-Based Exercise Program in Degenerative Meniscus Tears

Launched by ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY - CERRAHPASA · Feb 28, 2022

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To investigate the efficacy of a video-based exercise program, voluntary patients with degenerative meniscus tears, aged between 40 and 65 years, will be randomly divided into two groups: the video-based exercise (VBE) group and the standard exercise (SE) group. Interventions will be applied for 16 sessions (twice a week for eight weeks). The patients will be assessed at baseline and the end of the 8-week intervention. The pain during activity, at rest, and night will be assessed with the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). The active range of motion will be evaluated with a digital goniometer. Isom...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Being aged between 40 and 65 years
• • Having the degenerative meniscus tear in at least one knee
• • Having body mass index in the range of 18-30 kg/m2
• • Feeling the pain that lasts for at least 2 months
• • Having grade 1 or grade 2 degenerative meniscal tear diagnosed by an orthopedic specialist according to the MRI results
• • Having the activity level is between 1 and 5 according to the Tegner Activity Scale
• • Having the ability to read and write Turkish
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Having undergone arthroscopic partial meniscectomy surgery due to degenerative meniscal tear
• • Participating in a physiotherapy program for degenerative meniscal tear in the last 12 weeks
• • Have received steroid injections in the last 6 months
• • Accompanying conditions such as injury to the surrounding ligaments, congenital anomaly in the affected knee, coxarthrosis and spinal stenosis
• • Presence of any systemic disorder that may affect assessment parameters
• • Failure to cooperate with assessments
• • Any vision or hearing problem that would prevent them from adapting to the assessment