Abstract
The present project aims to associate the peripheral and central pressure pain threshold with adiposity parameters, in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (KOA), who are obese and not obese. For this, 30 subjects with KOA will be recruited, with degrees II, III and IV (Kellgren & Lawrence) divided into two groups: (1) Obese (n=15), with BMI e 30 and (2) Non-obese (n =15), with a BMI < 30. A…