Effect of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Quality of Life of Knee Osteoarthritis

Joudy Gessal; Irawan Yusuf; Ilhamjaya Patellongi; Gatot Lawrence

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Effect of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Quality of Life of Knee Osteoarthritis

Joudy Gessal, Irawan Yusuf, Ilhamjaya Patellongi, Gatot Lawrence

Received: 21 December 2014 Accepted: 24 April 2015 Published: 12 May 2015

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Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease worldwide and causes disability in elderly. Recent studies showed that therapeutic ultrasound (US) can reduced pain in various musculoskeletal disorders. Objective: To determined the effect of low-intensity pulsed US on quality of life and reduction of pain in grade 1 to 3 knee OA. Material and methods: We conducted a randomized control trial before and after therapy in 61 knee OA patients. We applied 12 sessions of low-intensity pulsed US, 20 minutes each, with frequency 1 MHz, and intensity of 0.2 W/cm2, duty cycle of 20% to 28 patients. Thirty three patients without therapy were categorized as control group. Reduction of pain by a visual analog scale and Quality of life by The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) questionnaire, were obtained before and after 12 sessions. We used the Wilcoxon test to compare the median and the Mann-Whitney U test for the difference between groups with a p value of 0.05 was considering as significant. Results: We observed a reduction of pain in therapy group (VAS before 3.5 (2/7); after 2.0 (0/5); p=0.001) and also in control group (VAS before 5.1 (2/8); after 4.0 (2/7); p=0.001), but the reduction was significantly more prominent in therapy group (p=0.004). There was a better quality of life in therapy group (WOMAC before 21.35 (4.2/52.1); after 11.45 (0.0/47.9); p=0.001) and also in control group (WOMAC before 25.00 (5.2/60.4); after 20.83 (3.1/55.2); p=0.001), but the score was significantly better in therapy group (p=0.001). Conclusions: Twelve sessions of low-intensity pulsed US has a benefit effect over pain and quality of life in knee OA patients.

DOI	10.11648/j.ajhr.20150303.20
Published in	American Journal of Health Research (Volume 3, Issue 3, May 2015)
Page(s)	166-169
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Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound, Knee Osteoarthritis, Quality of Life, VAS, WOMAC

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Joudy Gessal

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Indonesia
Irawan Yusuf

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
Ilhamjaya Patellongi

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
Gatot Lawrence

Department of Pathology Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia

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  author = {Joudy Gessal and Irawan Yusuf and Ilhamjaya Patellongi and Gatot Lawrence},
  title = {Effect of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Quality of Life of Knee Osteoarthritis},
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T1  - Effect of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Quality of Life of Knee Osteoarthritis
AU  - Joudy Gessal
AU  - Irawan Yusuf
AU  - Ilhamjaya Patellongi
AU  - Gatot Lawrence
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PY  - 2015
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DO  - 10.11648/j.ajhr.20150303.20
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JF  - American Journal of Health Research
JO  - American Journal of Health Research
SP  - 166
EP  - 169
PB  - Science Publishing Group
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VL  - 3
IS  - 3
ER  -

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