Research Article
Effect of the Herbal Drug Guilu Erxian Jiao on Muscle Strength, Articular Pain, and Disability in Elderly Men with Knee Osteoarthritis
Table 3
Measurements of muscle strength, VAS, and Lequesne index scores in the GEJ-treated group (
) before and after 12 weeks of treatment.
| | Variables | Pretreatment | Posttreatment | | Median | | | Median | | | value |
| | Measurements of muscle strength | | | | | | | | | PeakTQ-ext-nondominant (Nm) | 38.80 | 18.20 | 45.90 | 52.10 | 37.90 | 65.30 | 0.007** | | PeakTQ-ext-dominant (Nm) | 29.10 | 19.50 | 49.60 | 51.60 | 40.10 | 62.60 | 0.001** | | PeakTQ-flex-nondominant(Nm) | 19.50 | 14.40 | 32.60 | 20.70 | 19.10 | 36.20 | 0.085 | | PeakTQ-flex-dominant (Nm) | 18.80 | 15.70 | 33.20 | 30.80 | 21.70 | 36.70 | 0.092 | | TQ/BW-ext-nondominant (ft·lb/lb) | 66.60 | 35.30 | 83.10 | 76.50 | 71.70 | 103.90 | 0.006** | | TQ/BW-ext-dominant (ft·lb/lb) | 57.80 | 27.40 | 82.40 | 87.10 | 58.90 | 99.40 | 0.001** | | TQ/BW-flex-nondominant (ft·lb/lb) | 33.00 | 24.40 | 51.20 | 39.70 | 31.40 | 55.80 | 0.092 | | TQ/BW-flex-dominant (ft·lb/lb) | 37.30 | 24.20 | 53.80 | 47.50 | 38.20 | 58.60 | 0.076 | | Measurements of visual analog pain scale score (VAS) | | | | | | | | | visual analog pain scale score | 2.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.005** | | Measurements of Lequesne index score | | | | | | | | | Lequesne index score | 6.00 | 3.00 | 9.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 0.001** | | (I) Pain or discomfort | 2.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.003** | | (II) Maximum distance walked | 1.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.150 | | (III) Activities of daily living | 2.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 0.032* |
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Wilcoxon signed-rank test; * < 0.05; ** < 0.01.
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