Naslov
Effect of exercise with or without electromagnetotherapy on hand function in patients with osteoarthritis: a preliminary study.

Autori
Balen D ; Nemčić T ; Grazio S

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Osteoporosis International / Kanis, John A ; Lindsay, Robert - London : Delhi : Springer, 2018, 380-380

Skup
World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2018)

Mjesto i datum
Kraków, Poljska, 19.04.2018. - 22.04.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
hand osteoarthritis ; exercise ; electromagnetotherapy

Sažetak
Objective:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of therapeutic exercise with or without electromagnetotherapy on functional ability in patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study included 30 consecutive patients with verified diagnosis of hand OA, according to ACR criteria, who visited the physiatric and rheumatological outpatient clinic of the University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice in Zagreb (Croatia). All patients underwent therapeutic exercise for hands and received the active or „sham“ electromagnetotherapy in duration of 15 minutes. In the active group the frequency of the magnetic field was 900-1500 Hz and the power of the magnetic field was 0.5-52 Gauss. In the „sham“ group the device was not active. For evaluation of hand functional ability we used AUSCAN questionnaire. The intensity of pain in rest and in movement was tested on visual analog scale (VAS). Those variables were obtained before the therapy (T0), after 15 therapies cycle (T1), as well as one month upon completion of the therapy (T2). Significance was set up at the level of 0.05. Results: There was a statistically significant reduction of pain in rest in all patients in T1 time point and reduction of pain in movement in T1 and T2 time points. Also, in all patients in T1 and T2 time-points there was a statistically significant improvement in AUSCAN variables: „Pain in lifting“, „Total pain“, „Total physical functioning“ „Total“ and one month upon completion the therapy in variable „Lifting heavy objects“. There was neither statistically significant difference in variables pain in rest and pain in movement, nor in AUSCAN variables, between patients who underwent electromagnetotherapy and those who did not. with hand osteoarthritis the improvement was observed in all patients regardless the difference between active or sham group, regarding the decrease of pain and improvement of functional ability. In comparison to the control (sham) group the biomagnetotherapy of certain parameters has shown a positive effect in some parameters of AUSCAN, whereas this was not the case for the majority of other tested parameters. For making the firm conclusion about the effect of biomagnetotherapy on symptoms and sings of hand osteoarthritis a larger sample of subjects is necessary and that is why we continue the study. Graf 1: PAIN in rest (AUSCAN) Graf 2: BODY FUNCTION - peeling (AUSCAN) CONCLUSION:Hand exercises have positive effect on pain reduction and on improvement of AUSCAN parameters in patients with hand OA, while electromagnetotherapy did not show

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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