Osteoarthritis (OA) is a back pain disease that causes discomfort to billion of people globally. The study identifies that physiotherapy intervention is an effective strategy to manage OA. The study investigates the strategy that physiotherapy units at Mawau Hospital in Malaysia employs to manage OA .The findings reveal that physiotherapy intervention is an effective method that Mawau Hospital uses to mange OA.
Quality of Life Among Tawau Hospital Sufering From
Knee Osteoarthritis With Physiotherapy
Qualitative study of How Quality of Life of Tawau Hospital Staff
Suffering from Knee Osteoarthritis have been improved at Physiotherapy Unit.
To investigate how the Quality of Life among Tawau Hospital staff suffering from Osteoarthritis (knees) have been improved using Physiotherapy intervention.
The study employs qualitative techniques to collect data. The sample population is selected from people and Tawau Hospital staff visiting the physiotherapy unit. Approximately 100 sample valid questionnaires are collected and the data collected are used for the research findings. The study evaluates the extent the physiotherapy intervention has been able to improve the quality of life of participants. The physiotherapy intervention include physical exercise, and massage. The study measures the outcome of physiotherapy intervention using VAS (visual analogue scale). The reduction of pain has been used to measure the improvement of quality of life index of participants.
Results: The results reveal that physiotherapy intervention is an effective tool to reduce the pain of patients suffering from knee OA. The results reveals that there is a significant reduction of the knee pain of participants after the physiotherapy intervention showing that physiotherapy treatment of back OA is very effective.
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