Knee pain during strength training shortly following fast-track total knee arthroplasty: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Loading and contraction failure (muscular exhaustion) are strength training variables known to influence neural activation of the exercising muscle in healthy subjects, which may help reduce neural inhibition of the quadriceps muscle following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). It is unknown how these exercise variables influence knee pain after TKA.

Objective

To investigate the effect of loading and contraction failure on knee pain during strength training, shortly following TKA.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Consecutive sample of patients from the Copenhagen area, Denmark, receiving a TKA, between November 2012 and April 2013.

Participants

Seventeen patients, no more than 3 weeks after their TKA.

Main outcome measures

In a randomi

SUBMITTER: Bandholm T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3948740 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature