High Resistance Verses Low Resistance Training on Pain in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
Journal Title: International Journal of Health Sciences and Research - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 12
Abstract
Aim: “To compare the effects of high resistance training and low resistance training on pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis.” Objective : To study the effects of High resistance training on pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis, To study the effects of Low resistance training on pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis & to compare the effects of high resistance training and low resistance training on pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Procedure: 38 subjects were collected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Among which 5 subjects were excluded according to the exclusion criteria.2 subjects were not co-operative and 1 subject was not regular for the treatment. So 30 subjects underwent the physiotherapy intervention .Written consent were taken from the respected subjects for study. Participants were divided into Group A and group B by purposive convenient sampling technique for 6 weeks. Group Received low resistance exercise training and Group B received high resistance exercise training. Each group received 40 minutes individual training sessions 4 times a week. Numerical pain rating scale score was the outcome measure taken before and after the treatment protocol. Statistical test used for analysis were: One way Annova test and unpaired t-test. Result: After 6 weeks, Group A showed more improvement in reduction of pain (p value<0.0001) considered extremely significant than Group B. Conclusion: This study concludes that low resistance exercise training is more effective in improving pain than high resistance exercise training in patients with knee osteoarthritis
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Garishma. H. Gajwani
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