To Compare The Effectivness Of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Combined With Conventional Physiotherapy Verses Conventional Physiotherapy Alone In Post Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Research Article
Danish Shaikh and JaywantNagulkar
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2019.1001.3021
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
The Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS), Numeric pain Rating scale (NPRS), Manual Muscle Testing (MMT), neuromuscular electrical stimulation, conventional physiotherapy, post anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.
Abstract: 

The purpose of the study is to compare the effectiveness of neuromuscularelectrical stimulation combined with conventional physiotherapy versus Conventional physiotherapy alone in post anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Randomised control trial was carried out among 60 patients at physiotherapy department of tertiary care hospital for duration of 1 1/2 years.60 patientswere selected which were divided in two groups i.e. Group A: Experimental group and Group B: control group. Experimental group was containing 30 peoples and control group was containing 30 peoples. In experimental Group: Electrical muscle stimulation&Conventional rehabilitationprotocol which include 3 phases. In control group: The conventional physiotherapy protocol is divided into 3 phases and each phase includes various exercises.The Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS), Numeric pain Rating scale (NPRS), Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) was used as outcome measure. The hypothesis was tested statistically with pre test and post test mean score. Significance of difference at 5% level of significance was tested with paired‘t’ test. Unpaired‘t’ test was used to test the significant difference after the post test of both the treatments.Paired t test results for the experimental group, concludes that, treatment Electrical muscle stimulation with Conventional physiotherapy was effective.Paired t test results for the control group concludes that treatment, with only conventional physiotherapy was also effective.Unpaired t test results conclude that treatment Electrical muscle stimulation with Conventional physiotherapy was significantly more effective than the use of only conventional physiotherapy was effective.