Physiotherapy program through home visits for community-dwelling elderly Japanese women with mild knee pain

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-99

  Konishi, Isamu ^a,b   Tanabe, Naohito ^b   Seki, Nao ^c   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^b   Okamura, Taro ^d   Shinoda, Kunihiko ^e   Hoshino, Emiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community; Japanese elderly women; Knee pain; Physiotherapy; Seiza style sitting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY; HOME SAFETY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; KNEE ALIGNMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEIZA STYLE SITTING SCORE; SITTING; WESTERN ONTARIO AND MCMASTER UNIVERSITY OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449652871     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.219.91     Document Type: Article

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