one morning his right knee joint was found to t>e swollen and distended with all other signs of inflam?^ tion, and the movements became very difficultapplied Scott's dressing, and ordered dry fomentation and internally potassium iodide with sodii salicylasNext morning I found that the right knee joint ^va more swollen and distended, and the other knee joint wa also involved. He complained of se...

The knee is a weight bearing joint with importance in gait, stance, bending, stooping, and squatting. It is rather unstable and dependent on support from ligaments and strong muscles. There are two joints in the knee, the femorotibial and the femoropatellar. On both inner and outer side of the joint there are strong ligaments and in the centrum of the femorotibial joint are the cruciate ligamen...

Background: Patients with degenerative knee joint disease may ultimately undergo Total Knee Replacement (TKR) surgery. However, they need enough knowledge about self-care. The current study aimed at determining the knowledge score of patients undergoing TKR. Methods: The current descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted on 140 patients underwent TKR referring to selected hospitals affil...

background postural instability is one of the common problems of aging. however, with increased age many systems of body such as musculoskeletal system are affected and changed. one of these changes is knee flexion contracture. the study aimed to investigate the simulated knee flexion contracture effects on postural stability in elderly. material and methods 15 elderly subjects (11 men, 4 women...

The purpose of this preliminary study was to describe pedal effectiveness parameters and knee-joint reaction forces generated by subjects with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) during functional electrical stimulation (FES)-induced bicycling. Three male subjects (age 33-36 years old), who were post-traumatic SCI (ASIA-modified level A, level T4-C5) and enrolled in an FES rehabilitation program, ...

Although a multitude of factors that influence skeletal muscle blood flow have been extensively investigated, the influence of muscle length on limb blood flow has received little attention. Thus the purpose of this investigation was to determine if cyclic changes in muscle length influence resting blood flow. Nine healthy men (28 ± 4 yr of age) underwent a passive knee extension protocol durin...

Introduction The knee and subtalar joint actions are related by the internal/external rotation motion of the tibia during the support phase of running. It has been suggested that maximum knee flexion should occur at the same time as maximum subtalar eversion during which time the tibia undergoes internal rotation (Bates et al., 1978). Asynchronous timing between knee joint flexion and ankle joi...

PURPOSE Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often use a crouch gait pattern that has disturbances in the knee joint kinematics. Although the length and rate of lengthening of the hamstring musculature have been speculated to be the reason that these disturbances are not adequately dissipated, this relationship has not been adequately explored. The purpose of this exploratory investigation was to ...

PURPOSE To correlate patellar reflex inhibition with sympathetic knee joint effusion. METHODS 65 women and 40 men aged 45 to 75 (mean, 65) years underwent hip surgery. The surgery entailed dynamic hip screw fixation using the lateral approach with reflection of the vastus lateralis for pertrochantric fractures (n = 49), and hip hemiarthroplasty or total hip replacement using the Watson-Jones ...

Understanding joint kinetics during activities of daily living furthers our understanding of the factors involved in joint pathology and the effects of treatment. In this study, we examined hip and knee joint kinetics during stair climbing in 35 young healthy subjects using a subject-specific knee model to estimate bone-on-bone tibiofemoral and patello-femoral joint contact forces. The net knee...