High Intensity Laser Therapy (Classes IV) and Ibuprofen Gel Phonophoresis for Treating Knee Osteoarthritis

Summary

A total of 80 patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) aged between fourty five and seventy years will be recruited by simple random sampling to participate in two group, randomized, double blind, controlled study. Recruited patients will be randomly divided in to two groups high intensity-laser therapy (HILT) group and ibuprofen gel phonophoresis (IGP) group. Duration of the treatment will be 8 minutes in one session/knee joint for each day for 3 days/week for 8 weeks.The pain and quality of life will be assessed at the baseline and at the end of 8-week post-intervention period.

Conditions

• Osteo Arthritis Knee

Interventions

OTHER

High Intensity LASER Therapy

The total energy will be delivered to the patient during one session will be 1,250 J through three phases of treatment. 1. Initial phase (710 and 810 mJ/cm2 for a total of 500 J) 2. Intermediate phase (handpiece will be applied on the joint line just proximal to the medial and lateral tibial condyles with 25 J, a fluency of 610 mJ/cm2, and a time of 14 s for each point and a total of 250 J) 3. Final phase (same as the initial phase (500 J) except that scanning will be slow manual scanning ) The application time for all three phases will be approximately 15 min with the total energy delivered to the patient during one session of 1,250 J Duration of the treatment will be 8 minutes in one session/knee joint for each day for 3 days/week for 8 weeks.

OTHER

Ibuprofen gel phonophoresis

Continuous ultrasound set at a frequency of 1 MHz and an intensity of 1 W/cm2 was applied on a circular basis. Each treatment session will last for 8 min with one session each day for 3 days/week for 8 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Himachal Pradesh Council for Science Technology and Environment (HIMCOSTE)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Maharishi Markendeswar University (Deemed to be University)

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Vipin Saini, Ph.D · Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College and Hospital

• Asir J Samuel · Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

• Adarsh K Srivastav, MPT · Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College and Hospital

• Deeksha Sharma, MPT · Maharishi Markandeshwar Medical College and Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

45 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-09-28

Primary Completion

2023-05-21

Completion

2023-06-30

Countries

• India

Study Locations