This study is a randomized controlled trial which aims to compare the effect of weight bearing exercises and non-weight bearing exercises on the dynamic balance in knee osteoarthritis patients as 60 patients will divided in three groups where one group is control group and others two groups one of them perform weight bearing exercises and the other perform non weight bearing exercises.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
stretching exercises for Hamstring, quadriceps and calf muscle for both lower limbs of the same patients. each exercise was repeated 5 times and each repetition hold for 30 seconds in the same session.
it is one of the electrical stimulation modalities which is used to relief pain, each patient receive it on both knees every session.
strengthening exercises for quadriceps, gluteus maximus, gluteus Medius and calf muscle in the form of weight bearing from standing position each exercise was repeated for 10 times with 5 seconds hold in the same set and patient perform three sets in the same session for both lower limbs.
Faculty of physical therapy Cairo University
Giza, Egypt
change happened in the dynamic balance from the baseline
Biodex Balance System which is a device used to measure the balance of a person who stand on the platform of the device that give a measurement called over all stability index where 0 score means the best balance and the largest number indicate bad balance.
Time frame: one day after the end of treatment
change happened in pain from the baseline
Visual Analog Scale which is a scale for pain from 0 to 10 where 0 mean no pain and 10 is the maximum pain.
Time frame: one day after the end of treatment
change happened in the joint angle repositioning from baseline
Joint Repositioning Accuracy where the knee is moved passively to a certain angel and the patient hold it in this angle and then it moved to the start position and then the patient asked to move his knee joint actively to the previous the same previous angle then the absolute error between the true angle and the reproduced angle is measured.
Time frame: one day after the end of treatment
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strengthening exercises for quadriceps, gluteus maximus, gluteus Medius and calf muscle in the form of non-weight bearing from lying and setting positions each exercise was repeated for 10 times with 5 seconds hold in the same set and patient perform three sets in the same session for both lower limbs.