Comparisons of the medians of diagnostic-therapeutic variables in competitive athletes with post-traumatic knee synovitis rehabilitated with analgesic therapies
Keywords:
post-traumatic knee synovitis, Wilcoxon signed-rank non-parametric test, one-tailed and two-tailed Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U non-parametric test, conventional therapy, extremely low frequency electromagnetic field at 60HzAbstract
Introduction. Post-traumatic knee synovitis is frequent in athletes and its integral evaluation requires different diagnostic and therapeutic variables.
Objective: To compare the medians of diagnostic-therapeutic variables in competitive athletes with post-traumatic knee synovitis rehabilitated with conventional and extremely low frequency electromagnetic field of 60Hz analgesic and anti-inflammatory therapies.
Methods: A longitudinal and controlled pilot study is carried out, in which 39 and 43 athletes receive conventional therapy and extremely low frequency electromagnetic field of 60Hz, respectively. They are calculated and compared the medians of physical examination, ultrasound, Visual Analog Scale, Visual Analog Scale ranges, analgesic effectiveness index and response of each athlete to analgesic and anti-inflammatory therapy.
Results: The median of the difference fluctuates significantly between the same diagnostic variable at the beginning and at the end of therapy application (Wilcoxon signed-rank test). The difference in medians diverges significantly between the same diagnostic-therapeutic variable for the two analgesic therapies at each time instant, except for the Visual Analog Scale and its range at the beginning of its applications (one-tailed and two-tailed Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test).
Conclusion: Conventional therapy and the extremely low frequency electromagnetic field of 60Hz significantly influence all variables at the end of their applications with respect to those initially evaluated, indicating that both therapies are feasible in competitive athletes with post-traumatic knee synovitis, being the electromagnetic therapy the one with the greatest analgesic and anti-inflammatory efficacy.
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