OBJECTIVES Prior injury to the knee, particularly anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, is known to predispose one to premature osteoarthritis (OA). The study sought to explore if there was a biomechanical rationale for this process by investigating changes in external knee moments between people with a history of ACL injury and uninjured participants during walking: (1) on different surface...

Background: Intra-articular injection of Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an effective method for the treatment of patientswith knee osteoarthritis (OA). This study aimed to assess the effects of PRP injection on OA, based on gene expressionanalysis.Methods: A sample of 30 subjects with knee OA was asked to complete the Persian versions of the Intermittent andConstant Osteo...

Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA)is a chronic joint disease, primarily occurring in aged population. Rehabilitation of knee aims to reduce pain and disability by strengthening, raising endurance, range motion, proprioception improving aerobic fitness. Aim Objectives: This study aimed analyse compare the impact strengthening proprioceptive exercises on balance activities daily living OAin pop...

INTRODUCTION Knee osteoarthritis is associated with persistent joint pain, stiffness, joint deformities, ligament damage, and surrounding muscle atrophy. The complexity of the disease makes treatment difficult. There are no therapeutic drugs available to halt the disease progression, leaving patients dependent on pain medication, anti-inflammatory drugs, or invasive joint replacement surgery. ...

objective : the aim of this study was to validate the well-recognized outcome measure instruments (medical outcome study short form-sf-36, western ontario and mcmaster university osteoarthritis index-womac, mcmaster toronto arthritis patient preference disability questionnaire -mactar) for patients who had undergone total knee arthroplasty in iran, with its cultural and ethnic differences and c...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Persian version of Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) in patients with isolated meniscus injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred people with isolated meniscal injury (29 females and 71 males with a mean age ± standard deviation [SD] = 32.37 ± 9.97 years) and fifty normal people with no kne...

background: subjects with knee osteoarthritis typically have higher knee adduction moment. current research efforts are mainly focused on therapeutic procedures that potentially may modify disease progression. this preliminary study was designed as a single blind (examiner) randomized control trial to investigate the impact of conventional physical therapy on pain, and knee joint load in subjec...

BACKGROUND Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstructions are rarely performed compared with that for the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical and functional outcome after isolated or multiligament PCL reconstruction. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Patients who underwent PCL reconstruction between 2002 and 2010 were included. Stan...

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to translate Spanish the patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis subscale knee injury outcome score (KOOS-PF) validate version a disease-specific patient-reported measure (PROM) for pain. Results KOOS-PF translated sixty patients with and/or accepted complete questionnaire. 1-week later 58 answered questions again test–retest reliability validation fi...

Objective: to compare the contents of patient-reported instruments used in hip and knee arthroplasty rehabilitation with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Methods: A search of PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Registry, SCOPUS and PEDro identified patient-reported outcome instruments. The meaningful concepts extracted from the instruments were linked t...