[PDF] Top 20 Implementation of telemedicine for knee osteoarthritis: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... the trial well through workshops and group ...the trial will be sent to outpatients with knee ...the trial will be placed in the local newspapers, homepage of the hospital official website and ... See full document

... KOA: Knee osteoarthritis; LFT: Liver function test; NSAID: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug; PPS: Per-protocol set; RF: Rheumatoid factor; SAE: Serious adverse event; SPIRIT: Standard ... See full document

... The outcome assessors are physical therapists of the MUMC + . The performance measures and strength assessments are part of their routine tasks and no special training prior to the study was needed. The purpose ... See full document

... A portable dynamometer (Lafayette manual muscle system, model 01163, Lafayette Instrument Company, Lafayette, Indiana, United States) will be used. This device has been broadly employed in clinical practice and ... See full document

... the trial will be continued if they were taken for more than 1 month or if the researchers considered them unlikely to affect the re- ...relieve knee pain will not be ... See full document

... affected knee, the research assistant will apply a 180-g von Frey filament (bending it so that it forms a 45-degrees angle with the skin) three to five times within a 1-cm-diameter circle (Figure ... See full document

... symptomatic knee OA for at least 6 months with a pain at least 20 mm on a 100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS); American College of Rheumatology (ACR) cri- teria for symptomatic knee OA assessed by a rheuma- ... See full document

... KOA: Knee osteoarthritis; mPFC: Medial prefrontal cortex; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; NSAIDs: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; PAS: Pain Assessment of Sphygmomanometer; QOL: Quality of life; ... See full document

... Patients in both groups will receive basic health man- agement. Blood tests will be performed on day 0 and the second week after the six acupuncture sessions. In this study, we strengthened patients’ ... See full document

... total knee replacements, 1 high tibia osteotomy and 1 spinal ...the study due to work or lack of time, but continued to use the unloader brace, and are listed under ... See full document

... The study of venlafaxine, however, was very small ( n = 18) and used a single-blind, placebo run-in design rather than a randomised controlled trial ... See full document

... of knee inflam- mation, while the other two were among subjects with pri- mary KOA ...One study was in a subgroup of patients who had signifi- cant knee effusions who received intra-articular ... See full document

... well-designed, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCTs) of moxibustion are ...present study was to evalu- ate the effectiveness and safety of traditional moxibustion in treating KOA and ... See full document

... The first version of the COPE inventory by Carver, Scheier and Weintraub [83] was subsequently abbreviated by Carver [84]. The abridged version (brief COPE) contains only 28 items that are answered on a Likert 4-point ... See full document

... Various exercises have been recommended as potential treatments for KOA [42–45]. Given its feasibility and safety, WBV exercise has been recommended as an alter- native treatment to improve the function and self- ... See full document

... This study will be conducted in accordance with the re- quirements outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the appropriate Institutional Review ...or study pro- cedure, in compliance with ... See full document

... chair, arms on the lap, and feet just behind the starting- markings on the floor. The participants will be instructed as follows: “On the word ‘go’, stand up, walk comfortably and safely to the object at the end on the ... See full document

... From the point of view of neurology, acupuncture, as an external stimulus, may affect the central nervous sys- tem through perception, thereby exerting its peripheral effects. At the end of the last century, researchers ... See full document

... The protocol meets the legal requirements involving research in humans, according to the Declaration of ...This protocol was ap- proved by the Ethics Committee of the Health Sciences Institute of the ... See full document

... manipulate the patient’s body surface by means of var- ious forms of tuina maneuvers such as pushing, knead- ing, rolling, wrenching, and flicking-plucking to relax and dredge the meridians and promote Qi flowing and ... See full document