Indian Journal of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy - An International Journal
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 1

Comparison between Immediate Effect Land based and Water based squatting Activity on Pain in Osteoarthritis Knee Patients

  • Author:
  • Parag Kulkarni1, Arti Tank2, Ajay Kumar3, Satish Pimpale4, Suchit Shetty4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 134 to 137

1Associate Professor, DPO's NETT College of Physiotherapy

2Intern, DPO's NETT College of Physiotherapy

3Principal, DPO's NETT College of Physiotherapy

4Assistant Professor, DPO's NETT College of Physiotherapy

Online published on 16 January, 2018.

Abstract

To compare immediate effect of land-based and water based squatting activity on pain in OA knee patients.

To assess the pain using VAS (visual analogue scale) after performing land based squatting activity in OA knee patients

To assess the pain using VAS after performing water based squatting activity in OA knee patients.

To compare between immediate effect of land based and water based squatting activity, on pain in OA knee patients

The study showed that subjects of osteoarthritis knee showed statistically significant difference between immediate effect of land based and water based squatting activity(p<0.05)

Keywords

OA, Osteoarthrithis, Squatting, Knee pain, Elderly