TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mariana Mohsen Fahmy Hana
AU  - Haytham Mohamed Elhafez , 
AU  - Soheir Shahata Rezk Allah , 
TI  - Systematic review of manual therapy for knee osteoarthritis / 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Mariana Mohsen Fahmy Hana , 
KW  - Knee osteoarthritis
KW  - Manual therapy
KW  - Randomized control trials
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Basic Science; Issued also as CD
N2  - Manual therapy has been considered as a theraputic approach for patients with knee osteoarthritis ( OA) . The different modalities of manual therapy have variable effects on this knee joint OA. The Objectives of this study was to determine effect of manual therapy techniques on management of Osteoarthritis of the knee joint. Methods: using MEDLINE Pubmed , MEDLINE Cochrane, PEDRO and Google Scholar detailed searching the electronic data base from the year 2008 up to 2018 was conducted and only randomized controlled trial (RCT) studying the effect of different techniques of manual therapy on management of knee OA were selected. After exclusion of the invalid studies, only nine trials were included in the review. Assessment of methodological quality of the studies was performed using PEDro scale and the data was extracted from them. Two trials were of high quality scoring According to PEDro scale two trials was of high quality scoring 9/10 and 8/10 while the remaining studies ranged from scoring7/10and 6/10 and 5/10 and 2/10
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