en تاثیر کینزیوتیپ بر درد و کیفیت زندگی در افراد مبتلا به استئوآرتریت زانو: کارآزمایی بالینی تصادفی فیزیوتراپی Physiotherapy پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="OLE_LINK23"></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>Background and Objectives: </strong>The short and long-term effects of Kinesio tape on pain and quality of life (functional status) in patients with knee osteoarthritis were investigated.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> Forty-seven patients with knee osteoarthritis were randomly allocated into Kinesio tape and Sham Kinesio tape groups. The assessments were performed at the baseline, 30 minutes after the initial Kinesio tape application, 3 days after the fifth Kinesio tape application and 1 week later. The quality of life (functional status) of the patients was evaluated using the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Scale (WOMAC). The pain level was measured using the visual analog scale (VAS).<br> <strong>Results: </strong>In both groups, the mean of the rest pain, activity pain score, and WOMAC score decreased, but there were no significant differences between groups for both VAS and WOMAC scores (P˃0.05). Also, there were no significant differences between groups during the follow up assessment.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> According to the results, it may be concluded that there were no beneficial effects between Kinesio tape and sham tape on pain and on the quality of life in patients with knee osteoarthritis.&nbsp;</span><br> &nbsp;</div> Tape, Knee osteoarthritis, Pain, Quality of life, Kinesio tape. 27 36 http://fdj.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-85-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Ali Karamitabar علی کرمی تبار alikarami11pt@yahoo.com 10031947532846001347 10031947532846001347 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Shabnam Shahali شبنم شاه‌علی shabnamshahali@yahoo.com 10031947532846001348 10031947532846001348 Yes Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Mehdi Dadgo مهدی دادگو dadgoo.m@iums.ac.ir 10031947532846001349 10031947532846001349 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Soheil Mansor Sohani سهیل منصور سوهانی mansorsohani.s@iums.ac.ir 10031947532846001350 10031947532846001350 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Arsalan Ghorbanpour ارسلان قربان پور arsalanghorbanpour@ymail.com 10031947532846001351 10031947532846001351 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران، تهران، ایران Hashem Abrishamkarzadeh هاشم ابریشم کارزاده Hashem_abrishamkar@gmail.com 10031947532846001352 10031947532846001352 No Department of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه ارتوپدی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران Hasan Jaafary حسن جعفری hassan.jfry@gmail.com 10031947532846001353 10031947532846001353 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Parnian Mirbehresi پرنیان میربهرسی pbehresi@gmail.com 10031947532846001354 10031947532846001354 No Department of Physiotherapy, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran گروه فیزیوتراپی، دانشکده توانبخشی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران