Oral / Poster Presentation File
Assistant Professor at University of Art
Methodology: 45 elderly women aged over 55 years by paird random and based on pain of the knee allocated in three homogeneous groups: 1) shallow water exercise group, 2) deep water exercise group, and 3) control group. The exercise intervention includes a 12 weeks period of one hour exercise sessions which was repeated three times in per week. Balance, risk of fall, pain and quality of life were evaluated using Romber test, Berg scale and KOOS questionnaire respectively. Finally, data from 43 people at pre-test and post-test were analyzed by using two factor repeated measure ANOVAs at p<0.05 significance level.
Results: Results showed that balance, risk of fall, pain and quality of life in the shallow and deep water exercise groups improve significantly compared with the control group. While, the improvement of these variables in the shallow water exercise group were significantly more than the deep water exercise group.
Conclusion: Findings of this study suggest that physical exercise in the water has positive effects on balance, risk of fall, pain and quality of life in elderly women with chronic knee OA. Exercise efficacy in shallow water is more than deep water.
