Purpose of research: to estimate efficiency of complex medical treatment with application of electrophoresis neocaripazim-400 and pressure therapy in women with osteoarthrosis of knee joints in the menopausal period.
Materials and methods. 60 women were included in research at the age 50–70 (middle age of 62.51±7.67 years old), with the diagnosed osteoarthrosis of knee joints after the criteria of the American College of Reumatologists (ASR).
Patients were divided into 2 groups according to treatment mode. All the patients (30 patients) of the 1st group were treated with non-steroid anti-inflammatory agents (meloxicam in the dose 15 mg every day, ones a day) and chondroprotectors (piascledin 300 ones a day, during 3 months). All patients of the 2nd group (30 persons) against a background of a standard medicinal anti-inflammatory and anaesthetic therapy was indicated a complex therapy with application of electrophoresis with neocaripazim-400 (by sinusoidal modulated currents (SMS) on the straightened mode 50% 50 Hz, by intensity of current 0.04–0.06 mA/cm2.
Results. After the conducted complex therapy with the inclusion of electrophoresis with neocaripazim and pressure therapy in the 2 group there was a reliable improvement of the knee joints OA clinical course, more pronounced, than in 1st group, where standard medicinal therapy was used. Use of complex therapy with electrophoresis with neokaripazim-400 and pressure therapy in women suffering from OA in menopausal period improves clinical course of OA: by 53.9% (р<0,05) decreases intensity of pain syndrome and by 56.3% (р<0.05) decreases WOMAC index after all the parameters — pain syndrome decreased by 64%, flexity — by 63.3%, functional failure by 39.2% as compared with the group of patients treated by a standard scheme.