Effect of Isometric Strengthening Exercise Combined with Interferential Current on Pain among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: Experimental Study
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Abstract
Background: Osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease, is the gradual breakdown of the articular cartilage in the joint.Knee osteoarthritis is more prevalent in women than men which causes pain and discomforts. The intention of thisstudy is to find out the effect of isometric strengthening exercises combined with interferential therapy on pain inpatients with knee osteoarthritis.Purpose: To find out the effect of isometric strengthening exercises combined with interferential therapy in themanagement of knee osteoarthritis patients.Materials and Methods: Thirty individuals aged above 45 years of both genders with mild or moderate osteoarthritisparticipated in the study. The individuals were assigned in single groups. They received interferential therapyand performed isometric strengthening exercises for 4 weeks. Pain, Active range of motion (AROM), Passiverange of motion (PROM) and functional state of the subjects were evaluated by Numerical Pain Rating Scale(NPRS), universal goniometer and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC),respectively. The entire process was performed from November 2022 to March 2023.Result: The interventional group showed a considerable difference in each criterion (NPRS, AROM, PROM, andWOMAC). Isometric exercise and IFT was found to be effective in reducing pain in knee osteoarthritis.Conclusion: At the commencement of the four-week intervention plan, isometric exercise and interferentialtherapy showed a marked outcome on pain and functional state of subjects with osteoarthritis in the knee.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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