Efficacy of knee traction with stimulation and without stimulation on physical activity level among knee osteoarthritis patients

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to find out the effect of knee traction with stimulation and without stimulation on physical activity level among knee osteoarthritis. To achieve the purpose of this research, 30 patients in the age group of 55 to 65 years. The selected subjects were divided into three groups of ten each. Thus, knee traction with stimulation, knee traction without stimulation were selected as independent variables and physical activity level were selected as dependent variables. The treatment period was delimited to twelve weeks, in knee traction with stimulation, knee traction without stimulation were given to respective experimental groups (Group-I & Group-II). The group-III acted as control and did not participate in any systematic treatment. Data were collected before and after treatment. The collected data were statistically treated by using ANCOVA. When the obtained ‘F’ ratio was significant, Scheffe’s post hoc test was used to find out the significant paired mean differences. In all the cases, 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance. It is inferred that the twelve weeks of knee traction with stimulation treatment have significantly improved physical activity level. The result further reveals that the knee traction with stimulation group has shown significant improvement in physical activity level as compared to the knee traction without stimulation group. Participation in knee traction with stimulation, knee traction without stimulation resulted in a significant development in experimental groups when compared to control group.