《Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice》 ›› 2006, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (10): 875-876.

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Related Studies of Rehabilitation Therapy after the Total Knee Arthroplasty (review)

CHENG Kai, LI Xue-ping, YU Jun-long   

  1. The Department of Rehabilitation, Nanjing No.1st Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210006,Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2005-11-01 Published:2006-10-01 Online:2006-10-01

Abstract: Rehabilitation is very important to the therapeutic effect of total knee arthroplasty, and it's also the key measure for the knee function to reach the expected effect after the surgery. The most important contents of rehabilitation therapies are the training of muscle strength, range of joint motion, joint position sense and gait. Integrated rehabilitation therapies was used to improve the knee function as possible, such as all kinds of training to improve the knee muscle strength of flex and extend; early training of continued positive motion of knee joint to improve the knee range of motion; the training of knee joint position sense to improve the ability of motion control, posture adjusting and balance keeping; the gait training to adjust the unusual gait.

Key words: knee joint, total knee arthroplasty, rehabilitation therapy, review