Effect of Ground Level Reverse Treadmill Walking Versus Incline Reverse Treadmill Walking as an Adjunct to Conventional Physiotherapy in Chronic Knee Osteoarthritis Subjects Khilwani Amruta1,*, Pawar Amrutkuvar2, Warude Trupti2, Bathia Khushboo2 1Physiotherapist, Faculty of Physiotherapy, KIMS ‘Deemed to be’ University, Karad, Maharashtra, India 2Assistant Professor, Krishna College of Physiotherapy, KIMS ‘deemed to be’ University, Karad, Maharashtra, India *Correspondence: Amruta Khilwani, Physiotherapist, Faculty of Physiotherapy, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Deemed to be University, Karad, 415110, Maharashtra. Ph. No: -7276042117, Email id- amrutakhilwani12@gmail.com
Online published on 6 April, 2019. Abstract Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common, chronic, degenerative joint disorder which leads to pain, decrease functional activity and decreases quality of life. The following study was carried out to compare the effect of ground level reverse treadmill walking, incline reverse treadmill walking and short wave diathermy along with conventional exercises in chronic osteoarthritis subjects. Objectives To compare the effect of ground level reverse treadmill walking, incline reverse treadmill walking and short wave diathermy along with conventional exercises in chronic osteoarthritis subjects. Method The study was conducted at physiotherapy outpatient department of Krishna Hospital and MRC, Karad. Sample size was 60 which were further divided into 3 groups each containing 20 subjects by simple random sampling method. Group A was given Ground level reverse treadmill walking along with SWD and conventional exercises. Group B was given incline reverse treadmill walking along with SWD and conventional exercises while Group C was control group which was given only SWD and conventional exercises. Result Paired t-test and ANOVA were used for statistical analysis. In pre intervention, there was no statistically significant difference seen in p values for VAS which was 0.2096 and for SF-36 was 0.6602 but was statistically very significant difference seen in p values for WOMAC that was 15.17. On comparing the post intervention score, the results showed very significant difference for VAS with p value 0.0028 while extremely significant difference was seen with p-value for WOMAC and SF-36 was <0.0001 respectively. Conclusion The study concluded that incline reverse treadmill walking along with SWD and conventional exercises was more effective in decreasing the pain, stiffness and improving quality of life in subjects with chronic knee osteoarthritis. Top Keywords Chronic knee OA, Ground level reverse treadmill walking, incline reverse treadmill walking, SWD, VAS, WOMAC, SF-36. Top |