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Student Project | Physiotherapy | India | Volume 13 Issue 7, July 2024 | Rating: 3.3 / 10
Scaling Up a Rehabilitation Programme for Knee Osteoarthritis Through Escape-Knee Pain Programme
Abstract: Background: To understand the effect of exercise - based treatment for people suffering with knee osteoarthritis by providing them integrated rehabilitation along with education through - Enabling self - management and coping with arthritis knee pain through exercise, ESCAPE - knee pain programme. Method: A comparative study was conducted with people with knee osteoarthritis of n=30, who were divided into two groups, each group having a different treatment set up, (Group - A=15, Group - B=15). Thematic analysis was used to document people's pain level along with psychological status and to see how both groups have shown effects by these treatments before and after being involved in the programme. Results: In the beginning, patients had poor understanding and negative thoughts about the programme for knee pain in both the groups. Following the programme most of the patients in both the groups had positive impacts towards their treatment protocols. Participants involved in the interventional group described that the use of exercise - based rehabilitation along with education for the condition made them realize that it is important to understand the pathology behind the condition along with exercises playing an important role to treat their condition. The control group also showcased significant impacts upon treating them with electro modality along with home advice. Overall, both the groups had a great significant impact in reducing the anxiety levels along with improving their pain and functional mobility levels. Conclusion: The Escape knee pain programme is said to be effective in treating people with knee osteoarthritis as its exercise and education component showed good results on reducing pain and psychological status of patient suffering with knee arthritis also on upon usage of electro modality along with home advice component helped people to decrease pain and sufferings and made them stable to believe in the integrated rehabilitation programme.
Keywords: knee osteoarthritis, exercise - based treatment, rehabilitation programme, pain management, psychological status, Ultrasound, conventional therapy
Edition: Volume 13 Issue 7, July 2024,
Pages: 472 - 476