We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
An Eccentrically Biased Rehabilitation Program Early after TKA Surgery.
- Authors
Marcus, Robin L.; Yoshida, Yuri; Meier, Whitney; Peters, Christopher; LaStayo, Paul C.
- Abstract
Rehabilitation services are less-studied aspects of the management following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) despite long-term suboptimal physical functioning and chronic deficits in muscle function. This paper describes the preliminary findings of a sixweek (12 session) eccentrically-biased rehabilitation program targeted at deficits in physical function and muscle function, initiated one month following surgery. A quasiexperimental, one group, pretest-posttest study with thirteen individuals (6 female, 7 male; mean age 57 ± 7 years) examined the effectiveness of an eccentrically-biased rehabilitation program. The program resulted in improvements in the primary physical function endpoints (SF-36 physical component summary and the six-minute walk test) with increases of 59% and 47%, respectively. Muscle function endpoints (knee extension strength and power) also increased 107% and 93%, respectively. Eccentrically-biased exercise used as an addition to rehabilitation may help amplify and accelerate physical function following TKA surgery.
- Subjects
TOTAL knee replacement; TREATMENT programs; WALKING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE diseases; PHYSICAL therapy
- Publication
Arthritis (20901984), 2011, p1
- ISSN
2090-1984
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2011/353149