Department of Community Health Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University
*Corresponding author: Mariamma V George, Associate Professor, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal University, Telephone: +91 9986874940. Email: mariammavgeorge@gmail.com
Online published on 1 August, 2014.
To identify the intensity of knee joint pain experienced by women as measured by Brief Pain Inventory -Short Form (BPI-SF).
To assess the effectiveness of quadriceps strengthening exercises in terms of difference in the mean pre-test and post-test knee joint pain scores between the experimental and control group.
To determine the association between pretest scores of knee joint pain and selected variables like age, family history of knee joint pain, duration of menopause and intake of milk.
A quasi experimental time series design was adopted for the study. Subjects were selected purposively and were grouped into experimental and control group. The experimental group received a five week intervention and the control group was not given any intervention. Patient demographics and clinical data were collected at the baseline using demographic proforma and clinical proforma. Pain scores of the experimental and control group were measured on the first, seventeenth and thirty fifth day of the study period with Brief pain Inventory Short Form.
Following the intervention, there was significant reduction in the pain scores of experimental group and significant association was found between age and knee joint pain.
The results indicate that the intensity of knee joint pain decreased after practicing the exercise for five weeks. Thus quadriceps strengthening exercises were found to be useful for patients suffering from knee joint pain.
Knee Joint Pain, Quadriceps Strengthening Exercises, Exercise, Arthritis
