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Postural Analysis in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT01031576 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2009-12-14

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Summary

Osteoarthritis is the result of the degeneration of the cartilage to articulate, being currently considered as having an multifactorial cause.The knees are one of the affected joints more due to overload that constitutes the main activator or determinative mechanism for the development of the illness. Beyond pain it has important reduction of the amplitude of movement and the muscular force that causes functional limitation and posture's alterations intervening with the activities of daily life. Therefore, the main objective of this study will be to characterize the posture's alterations and the electromiographic activity in patients with osteoarthritis of knees. For this study 30 citizens will be evaluated, 15 with diagnosis of OA of knees unilaterally and 15 healthful citizens, both the groups will be of the feminine sex with age between 60 to 80 years. The selected patients will answer a questionnaire of personal dates and will have an evaluation fiche, in which will be written down: age, index of corporal mass (IMC), index of Lesquene, index WOMAC (Western Ontario and Mac Master), personal and familiar date of the diagnosis, antecedents, instituted treatments, date of the last x-ray, radiological classification of the osteoarthritis according to Scale of Kellgren, electromiographics date and seeming of the postural evaluation. For the electromiographic evaluation the activity of the muscles vastus lateralis and medial oblique in the isometric contraction maximum volunteer (ICMV) and in the march will be analyzed. And for the postural evaluation will be made three photographs in the sights previous frontal and sagittal right and left, being that, for the analysis of the posturais alterations the program will be used SAPO.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Luciano Sencovici · USP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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