Progressive resistance exercise in women with osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized controlled trial.

Authors :: Jorge, Renata Trajano Borges
Souza, Marcelo Cardoso de
Chiari, Aline
Jones, Anamaria
Fernandes, Artur da Rocha Correa
Júnior, Império Lombardi
Natour, Jamil
Source :: Clinical Rehabilitation. Mar2015, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p234-243. 10p.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: The article presents a study which examines the effect of progressive resistance exercise (PRE) program among women with knee osteoarthritis. The study uses a randomized controlled trial to the experimental group (EG) and control group (CG). The study shows the effectiveness of PRE program in reducing pain and quality of life (QoL) of women.

Subjects :: *KNEE disease treatment
*OSTEOARTHRITIS treatment
*MUSCLE strength
*ANALYSIS of variance
*CHI-squared test
*EXERCISE
*RESEARCH funding
*STATISTICS
*T-test (Statistics)
*DATA analysis
*EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*REPEATED measures design
*BLIND experiment
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*MANN Whitney U Test

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