The effects of Tiszasüly and Kolop mud pack therapy on knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind, randomised, non-inferiority controlled study
| Autor: | Katalin Hodosi, Peter V. Balint, Tamás Bender, Márta Király, Eszter Kővári |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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musculoskeletal diseases
Osteoarthritis of the knee Atmospheric Science medicine.medical_specialty WOMAC Special Issue: Balneology 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Visual analogue scale Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Arthritis Osteoarthritis 01 natural sciences Double blind 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Non inferiority Double-Blind Method Quality of life Hot-pack therapy medicine Humans 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Ontario 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Non-inferiority study Ecology business.industry Mud Therapy Osteoarthritis Knee medicine.disease Treatment Outcome Knee pain Quality of Life Physical therapy Mud pack therapy medicine.symptom business Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Biometeorology |
| ISSN: | 1432-1254 0020-7128 |
| Popis: | The aim of this non-inferiority study was to evaluate and compare the effects of Tiszasüly and Kolop mud pack therapy on pain, function and quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis. In this double-blind, randomised, follow-up study, 60 patients with knee osteoarthritis were treated with either Tiszasüly hot mud pack (group 1) or with Kolop hot mud pack (group 2) on 10 occasions for 2 weeks (10 working days). One hundred millimetre visual analogue scale (VAS) for knee pain, the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC), the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS), the Lequesne Index for physical function and EuroQoL-5D for quality-of-life measurements were recorded at baseline, at the end of treatment (week 2) and 3 months later (week 12). In both groups, all measured parameters improved significantly from the baseline until the end of treatment and during the follow-up period (p |
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