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Clinical Trial Summary

The objectives are to evaluate the effects of immersion bath with sulphurous water in pain, joint mobility and quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Patients will undergo three weekly baths in sulphurous water and not sulphurous, twenty minutes each, for ten weeks.

The expected results are: reduction of pain, improved range of motion of the lower limbs with consequent increase in muscle mass improvement in postural balance, which will come due to the reduction of pain and improvement movements of the lower limbs; greater independence in performing the activities of daily living, better quality of life.


Clinical Trial Description

The baths were performed in individual tubs, properly disinfected, supplied with thermal water and sulphurous thermal sulphurous not at a temperature 37-39 ° C, which encompass the optimum temperatures for therapeutic bath. The baths lasted for 20 minutes. The subjects drank two cups of water, 300 ml before and after the baths, in order to avoid an imbalance water. Treatment consisted of 30 individual treatment sessions, three times a week, lasting twenty minutes each session, for ten weeks. The experiment was performed at the Therms Antonio Carlos, institution belonging to the Municipality of Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT01920360
Study type Interventional
Source Federal University of São Paulo
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date February 2011
Completion date December 2013

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