Resumen:
OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of an educational physiotherapy home exercise intervention for physical improvement, pain perception, quality of life, and illness behavior in patients with hemophilic arthropathy.
DESIGN: Single‐blind randomized controlled trial.
SETTING: Home.
PARTICIPANTS: Patients with hemophilia (N=20) were randomly allocated to an educational intervention group or to a control group.
INTERVENTIONS: The educational intervention was performed every 2 weeks over a 15‐week period, and home exercises were carried out once a day, 6 days a week, over the same period.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Joint status was evaluated using the Gilbert scale; pain was assessed using the visual analog scale; illness behavior was evaluated using the Illness Behavior Questionnaire; and the perception of the quality of life was evaluated using the A36 Hemophilia‐QoL questionnaire.
RESULTS: We observed significant differences in the intervention group and the control group for both quality of life and illness behavior. There was no significant improvement in joint status; however, an improvement was noted in terms of perception of pain in the ankle.
CONCLUSIONS: A physiotherapy progr...