Retro-walking Versus Forward-walking Training Using Underwater Treadmill in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
Recruiting · NCT06896032 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Nourhan Atwa Said
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov →Interventions studied
physical therapy intervention
What this trial is about
The purpose of this study Will investigate and compare the effects of retro-walking and forward-walking underwater treadmill training on pain, function and ROM in subjects with chronic knee OA
Who can take part
Age range
40 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
Yes - healthy volunteers may be accepted
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- 60 patients with chronic knee OA.
- Age ranges from 40-60 years old of both genders.
- body mass index (BMI) 25- 35kg/m2.
- The degree of osteoarthritis was mild or moderate and have a Kellgren- Lawrence radiographic grade of of1-3.
- unilateral knee osteoarthritis involvement.
Exclusion criteria
- hydrophobia.
- pregnancy.
- infection.
- psychiatric disorder.
- haemorrhagic diathesis.
- cardiac pacemaker.
- all Subjects with deformity of hip, knee \& ankle.
- any CNS or PNS involvement.
- recent steroidal or intraarticular injections (3 months).
- systemic inflammatory disease and bone malignancy.
Where it is running
2 locations listed.
- cairo U - Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
- cairo U - Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt