Conventional Physiotherapy And Additional Krishnas Kinetikinetic Manual Therapy KKMT For Knee Osteoarthritis Rehabilitation A Comparative Study.

Background Osteoarthritis is the most prevalent chronic rheumatic disease in the World and Physiotherapy care is an integral part of its management. The development of new Physiotherapy techniques will therefore be helpful. This is why we conducted this study to evaluate the effectiveness of conventional Physiotherapy alone CPA versus CPK Conventional Physiotherapy associated with Krishnas Kinetikinetic Manual Therapy which is a new technique on pain stiffness function and knee Range of motion in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Materials and Methods a controlled single blinded experimental study was undertaken on 14 patients with knee Osteoarthritis. Patients were recruited into two groups of 7 each CPA and CPK. Both groups received treatment protocols for 5 weeks 3 sessions per week. The WOMAC Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index VAS Visual Analogue Scale and Goniometer were used for data collection before and after treatment. Data were analyzed using MS Excel 2010 and SPSS version 20 software. Results Among our 14 patients were 5 males 9 females. In the intervention group CPK the mean score before treatment for WOMAC VAS and ROM Range of Motion were respectively 52.43 on 96 77.86 on 100 and 107.14. After treatment they were 17.86 26.86 and 117.21 respectively. In the control group CPA before treatment they were respectively 50.00 64.29 and 95.07. After treatment they were 26.00 38.86 and 104.28 respectively. The difference between the two groups was not significant for WOMAC p0.477 VAS p0.263 and knee ROM p0.884. Conclusion KKMT added to conventional therapy was found to improve the treatment of symptoms in patients with knee osteoarthritis. More studies with larger and randomized sample sizes and longer periods of treatment may assess better this new technique.