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Effect Of Strengthening Hip Rotators And Ankle Muscles On Knee Osteoarthritis

NCT05855681 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2023-10-24

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate the effect of adding strengthening exercise for hip rotators and ankle muscles to knee exercises on pain, function, muscles strength , and knee proprioception in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

The main question it aims to answer is:

* What is the effect of adding strengthening exercise for hip rotators and ankle muscles to knee exercises on pain, function, strength of hip rotators and ankle muscles, and knee proprioception in patients with knee osteoarthritis?" Adult male and female diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral knee osteoarthritis, referred from orthopedic surgeons according to inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled in this study, randomly allocated to groups and received exercise for 4 weeks.
* Control group Patients in this group will receive knee exercises in the form of stretching for hamstring and calf. Strengthening exercises in form of strengthening exercise for quadriceps.
* Experimental group In addition to the same knee exercise of control group patients will receive strengthening exercise for hip rotators and ankle muscles.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

therapeutic exercises

strengthening exercise and stretching exercise

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-01
Primary Completion
2023-10-15
Completion
2023-10-15

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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Diseases

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