BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE After total knee arthroplasty with conventional surgical approach, more than half of the quadriceps extension strength is lost in the first postoperative month. Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) operated with minimally invasive surgery (MIS) results in less operative trauma. We investigated changes in leg-extension power (LEP) in the first month after MIS Oxford UK...

Routine knee arthroscopic surgery for the painful knee in middle-aged and old patients—time to abandon ship Knee arthroscopic surgery is one of the most common orthope-dic procedures. Introduced in Scandinavia in the late 1970s, it replaced and improved earlier open knee procedures, changed most of them from inpatient surgery to outpatient surgery, and drastically cut patient recovery time. Ear...

BACKGROUND We examined factors associated with the clinical presentation of patients judged likely by orthopedic surgeons to benefit from nonarthroplasty knee surgery. METHODS Consecutive patients presenting to orthopedic surgeons were eligible for the study and 103 were recruited. A trained research assistant took histories, performed physical examinations, and administered a standardized qu...

Researchers have found that poor postoperative outcomes in pain and function are associated with poor loading patterns on the knee joint, specifically high knee adduction moment, high knee flexion moment and low knee extension moment. These pathological loading patterns are usually present in these patients prior to surgery and are retained after surgery. With time these loading patterns will l...

Diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis can be confirmed based on clinical and/or radiological features. The potential of a progressive disease can be prevented or decreased by earlier recognition and correction of associated factors. Obesity and alignment especially varus malalignment are recognized factors of a progressive disease. Both nonpharmalogical as well as pharmacological modalities of treat...

The need for an objective tool to assess the outcome of total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is widely recognized. This study investigates the potential of an objective diagnostic tool for assessing the outcome of TKR surgery based on motion analysis techniques. The diagnostic tool has two main elements: collection of data using motion analysis, and the assessment of knee function using a class...

Objective Physiotherapists commonly provide non-surgical care for people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). It is unknown if patients are receiving high-quality physiotherapy their OA. This study aimed to explore the experiences of who had recently received OA in Australia and how these aligned national Clinical Care Standard Design Qualitative using semistructured individual telephone interviews t...

Background: This is to assess one of the rare complications after total knee replacement and to assess risk factors of failure.Methods: 11 patients with varus knee and an average age of 67 years underwent TKA between 2005 and 2013. All patients returned with a sudden sharp knee pain, disability to walk and significant decrease in ROM about 4 to 8 weeks after surgery. Radiographic examination re...