Effect of Exercises on Dynamic Balance in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients.

Effect of Weight Bearing Versus Non-weight Bearing Strengthening Exercises on Dynamic Balance in Knee Osteoarthritis Patients.

This study is a randomized controlled trial which aims to compare the effect of weight bearing exercises and non-weight bearing exercises on the dynamic balance in knee osteoarthritis patients as 60 patients will divided in three groups where one group is control group and others two groups one of them perform weight bearing exercises and the other perform non weight bearing exercises.

Inclusion Criteria:

• The patient's age > 50 years.
• Recent radiographs confirming the presence of knee OA, grade II-III (mild to moderate) Kellgren Lawrence (K/L).
• Body mass index (BMI) from 20 to 30 kg/m2.
• Met the American College of Rheumatology clinical criteria for mild to moderate knee OA.
• knee pain > 3 cm on a 10 cm visual analog scale (VAS) on most days of the previous week.
• Bilateral knee osteoarthritis.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Congenital or acquired inflammatory or neurological (systemic or local) diseases involving the knee.
• Patients who have mental or cognitive illness that interfere their ability to perform the exercises or the evaluation tests.
• Intra articular knee injection of steroids in the past 6 months.
• Patients who had received joint replacement surgery in either Knee or hip.
• Patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
• Patients who received physical therapy sessions on the knee in the past 6 months.