Retrospective Study of Rehabilitation Exercise Combined with Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

04 December 2020: Clinical Research

Shixiong Yi ^ABCDEFG , Heng Jiang ^ABCDEFG* , Jie Zhou ^ABCDF , Qian Li ^ABCD , Meiyuan Wang ^ABCDE , Qifeng Peng ^ABCDF

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.927722

Med Sci Monit 2020; 26:e927722

Table 1 Patients characteristics.

Variable	RE group (n=104)	NRE group (n=113)	P value
Gender (Male/Female	71/36	82/33	0.471
Age (years)	58.17±5.66	57.93±6.21	0.718
BMI (kg/m)	22.38±1.34	22.72±1.36	0.127
Course of disease (month)	18.38±3.34	17.43±5.96	0.094
K-L grade (grade I/II/III)	17/64/13	21/74/18	0.531
VAS score	6.47±1.03	6.31±1.32	0.629
WOMAC score	38.24±7.17	38.87±6.32	0.871
Lequesne index score	12.17±3.27	12.45±3.62	0.226
RE – rehabilitation exercise; NRE – non rehabilitation exercise; BMI: Body Mass Index; K-L grade – Kellgren and Lawrence (K-L) grade; VSA – Visual Analog Scale, WOMAC – Western Ontario and McMaster Universities knee osteoarthritis index visualized scale.