Original Research Article
Year: 2018 | Month: October-December | Volume: 3 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 202-207
Efficacy of Balance Exercises with Endurance Training on Pain, Balance in Osteoarthritis
Dr. Meenakshi Chauhan
Assistant Professor, Physiotherapy Department (U.C.B.M.S.H) Dehradun
ABSTRACT
Background: Osteoarthritis is a degenerative and progressive joint disease that mainly involves weight bearing joints such as the hip, knee and ankle. It is considered as one of the leading causes of lower limb disabilities among the elder people. Knee pain could influence balance control via effects on proprioceptive input, central processing of information In this study it is to evaluate the comparative study of two balance training programs on pain balance in osteoarthritis knee patients.
Methods: The 30 Subjects were chosen as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Intensity of pain and balance was measured before the intervention and the subjects were divided into two groups. On the first day Pre intervention data of intensity of pain and balance was collected. After this pre-intervention analysis two groups were divided as Group A and Group B in which different exercise Protocol were performed for 3 weeks and post- intervention Data was collected from both the groups and final results were concluded.
Results: Results of the present study revealed that there was a considerable effect of balance training with endurance protocol rehabilitation in decreasing pain and imbalance in patients with knee osteoarthritis as compared to patients who received balance program alone. Results of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in reducing pain in patients who were treated with balance training with endurance program with mean being 1.98+-0.71 on Post intervention as compared to patients treated with balance training protocol alone with mean being 2.39+-0.77.
Conclusion: In Conclusion ,the present study has shown that Balance training exercises are effective in osteoarthritis knee patients but Balance training exercises with Endurance training exercises improves and more effective in reducing pain and imbalance of osteoarthritis knee patients which patients faces in their daily routine tasks.
Keywords: Balance berg scale, Numeric pain rating scale, knee Osteoarthritis, Balance training program.