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Diadynamic and Exercises in Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT05159986 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2021-12-16

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Summary

Osteoarthritis represents failed repair of joint damage resulting from stresses initiated by any joint or periarticular tissue abnormality. The rate of progression varies among persons and within a knee over time.

The symptoms and signs of knee osteoarthritis include pain, stiffness, reduced joint motion, and muscle weakness. Long-term consequences can include reduced physical activity, deconditioning, impaired sleep, fatigue, depression, and disability.This reduction in activity to avoid pain (kinesiophobia) to evade the onset of pain, especially in the acute phase, limiting their compliance with effective rehabilitation strategies such as regular exercises.

Physical medicine has a wide range of analgesic anti-inflammatory and muscle stimulating treatment methods. Both diadynamic and TENS currents have become the most frequently implemented electrotherapeutic methods. The impact of diadynamic currents consists of analgesic effects and specific dynamics during the formation of physiological processes in tissues.

They occur during the administration of the current and lasts up to a few hours after the treatment has been terminated. One of the theories explaining the analgesic effect of diadynamic currents is the gate control theory of pain by Wall and Melzack. Recently, another theory has become very popular. It explains the analgesic effect provoked by bodies characterized as polypeptides called endorphins. Electric stimulation using diadynamic currents generates an increase in the amount of endorphins in a system.

Although the analgesic impact of TENS therapy is well known, Diadynamic currents therapies have not been studied in knee osteoarthritis pain conditions. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the medium-term effects of Diadynamic currents combined with exercise on pain and disability in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis, Knee

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Group that received aplication of Diadynamic currents associated to Exercise during eight weeks with three sessions a week

Diadynamic currents was performed followed by exercises (divided into Phase-1, Phase-2 and Phase-3 during eight weeks with three sessions a week).

OTHER

Group that received exercise during eight weeks with three sessions a week

The intervention was divided into Phase-1, Phase-2 and Phase-3 during eight weeks with three sessions a week. Each session lasted 45 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Raquel Ap Casarotto, PhD · USP

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-01
Primary Completion
2021-04-01
Completion
2021-08-01

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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