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Revista Médica Electrónica

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RIOS GARCIA, Marilia; SOLIS DE LA PAZ, Dayma; ALDES GONZALEZ, Adrián Alberto  y  OVIEDO BRAVO, Ariel. Use of physical means in cases of osteoarthrosis at the Teaching Military Hospital Mario Muñoz, of Matanzas. 2012. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2013, vol.35, n.3, pp.243-252. ISSN 1684-1824.

The ostearthritis is the most common articular diseases and one of the main causes of disability in elder people. We carried out a descriptive study in the Teaching Military Hospital Mario Muñoz Monroy, of Matanzas, with the objective of describing the usage of physical means in cases of osteoarthritis during 2012. We studied the variables of gender, age, afected joint, risk factors, pain intensity (Analogical Visual Scale) and functional disability (Waddel test). The osteoarthritis was predominant in the female sex and in ages more than 65 years. The most affected joint was the knee, and overweight the most frequent risk factor.  The evolution of the patients with osteoarthritis was good in 71,8 %, regular in 21,3 % and bad in 6,9 %. In the acute phase, the laser-combined magnetotherapy reached the biggest quantity of patients with a good evolution; in the sub-acute and chronic stages infrared heat with analgesic power reached the highest quantity.

Palabras clave : osteoarthritis; physical means; adults.

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