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 3 Comparison of WOMAC scores between the two groups before and after treatment.

Groups	Before treatment	After treatment
RE group (n=104)	38.24±7.17	20.37±4.06^#
NRE (n=113)	38.87±6.32	27.82±4.57^#
P value	0.871
WOMAC – Western Ontario and McMaster Universities knee osteoarthritis index visualized scale; RE – rehabilitation exercise; NRE – non rehabilitation exercise; ^# represents P ^* represents P