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A Smartphone App for Home-Exercise Programs for Knee Osteoarthritis

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August 2022

A Smartphone App for Home-Exercise Programs for Knee Osteoarthritis

Vol: 281| Issue: 1| Number:1| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:1
Journal Level of Evidence:1

The effect of innovative smartphone application on adherence to a home-based exercise programs for female older adults with knee osteoarthritis in Saudi Arabia: a randomized controlled trial

Disabil Rehabil. 2022 Jun;44(11):2420-2427.

Contributing Authors:
M Alasfour M Almarwani

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Forty patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis were randomized to either the home-exercise smartphone application program (n=20) or the paper-based home exercise program (n=20). The primary outcome of this trial was to determine the adherence rate to the exercise program at 3 and 6 weeks. Secondary outcomes such as pain intensity (Arabic Numeric Pain Rating Scale (ANPRS)), knee function (Arabic v...

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