Thème :

Santé maternelle et infantile

Type de présentation :

Présentation Orale

Titre abstract :

Conventional Physiotherapy and additional Krishna's Kinetikinetic Manual Therapy (KKMT) for knee osteoarthritis rehabilitation: A Comparative Study.

Auteurs :

Franklin CHU BUH FRANKLIN¹ , Faustin ATEMKENG TSATEDEM^2,3 , Achombwom Thomas VUKUGAH⁴ , Ghyslaine  Bruna DJEUNANG DONGHO⁵

 

 

Institutions:

¹Centre Medical Hospitalier ,Litoral, Cameroon ; ²Deido District Hospital, douala, cameroun ; ³University of Dschang Litoral / West regions, Cameroon ; ⁴ICAP Cameroon ; ⁵Sapienza University of Rome , Italy.

Corresponding authors :

franklinbuhchu@gmail.com

Référence :

CaHReF 2018, Yaoundé Congres hall, 08 – 11 January 2019 , OAU001

Abstract :

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

Objectif: To evaluate the effectiveness of conventional Physiotherapy alone (CPA) versus CPK (Conventional Physiotherapy associated with Krishna's Kinetikinetic Manual Therapy on patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

Methodology: 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 (p=0.477), VAS (p=0.263) and knee ROM (p=0.884).

Conclusion/Recommandation: 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.

Key Words: Knee Osteoarthritis, Conventional Physiotherapy, KKMT.