background: the aim of this study is evaluation of the validity and reliability of the persian version of knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (koos) in patients with isolated meniscus injury. materials and methods: one hundred people with isolated meniscal injury (29 females and 71 males with a mean age ± standard deviation [sd] = 32.37 ± 9.97 years) and ?fty normal people with no knee...

background: osteoarthritis is a disabling musculoskeletal disease with no definite treatment. this study compared the effect of platelet-rich plasma (prp) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (tens) plus exercise in the treatment of patients with knee joint osteoarthritis.   methods : 54 eligible patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly allocated into two groups. (irct20121106...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: OA: Osteoarthritis; TKA: Total Knee Arthroplasty; KOA: Knee Osteoarthritis; WOMAC: Western Ontario Master Universities; KOOS: Knee Injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score; KSS: Knee Society Score; OKS: Oxford Knee Score; VAS: Visual Analogue Scale; CPM: Continuous Passive Motion; NMES: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation; ROM: Range of M...

  Background: Osteoarthritis is a disabling musculoskeletal disease with no definite treatment. This study compared the effect of Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) plus exercise in the treatment of patients with knee joint osteoarthritis.   Methods : 54 eligible patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly allocated into two groups. (IRCT201211...

The Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) is one of the valid reliable tools for patient-reported assessment knee joint in cases injury or osteoarthritis, before after replacement. aim this study was to evaluate validity reliability Bulgarian version KOOS questionnaire. First, original English translated into Bulgarian, back-translated, pilot-tested clarity acceptance. Then questi...

QUESTION Is four weeks of home-based balance training more effective than four weeks of home-based strength training at decreasing pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis? DESIGN Randomised trial with concealed allocation and assessor blinding. PARTICIPANTS 48 community volunteers with knee osteoarthritis. INTERVENTION Two groups undertook home-based exercise programs: one group perform...

BACKGROUND The Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) is an extension of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthrtis Index (WOMAC), the most commonly used outcome instrument for assessment of patient-relevant treatment effects in osteoarthritis. KOOS was developed for younger and/or more active patients with knee injury and knee osteoarthritis and has in previous st...

background: the present study aimed to translate and evaluate the reliability and validity of the persian version of the 11-item intermittent and constant osteoarthritis pain (icoap) measure in iranian subjects with knee osteoarthritis (koa). materials and methods: the icoap questionnaire was translated according to the manufacturers alliance for productivity and innovation (mapi) protocol. the...

Background: Due to the obvious differences in the natural course of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA),different functional outcomes might be expected after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) in these distinct patients. Althoughseveral studies have reported the objective outcome of TKA in RA and OA patients, few studies have compared postoperativepatient-satisfaction levels.Methods: I...