Conservative Therapy through Adequate Doctor Patient Interaction Improves outcomes in Patients Suffering from Mild and Moderate Knee Osteoarthritis
Journal Title: International Journal of Healthcare Education & Medical Informatics - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
In India, prevalence of the KOA is more than 30 %.(1) Patients suffering from KOA have a poor quality of life due to intractable and perpetual pain swelling & buckling.(2) Basically, KOA is a chronic disease. There is a definite role of conservative therapy in management of KOA. It needs lots of attention of the Orthopedists/ physiotherapists as well as the family members for attaining best outcome of the therapy. This rarely happens. When KOA patients go to consult an Orthopaedist in OPD there is too much overcrowding. Doctors don’t have enough time for explaining conservative treatment in detail to them (3). Necessary investigations are advised. Their prescription includes analgesics, list of exercises, dietary advice. Then the patient is referred to physiotherapy section. Patients are given verbal instructions in hardly 2-3 minutes which doesn’t make any sense to them. Consequently, the patients often end up doing exercise wrongly. Rather than benefitting them this aggravates the condition.
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Dr. Sharma M
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