RESEARCH - Exercise after knee replacement critical

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Article Date: 03 Feb 2009 - 8:00 PST

Exercise After Knee Replacement Critical

It may be uncomfortable at first, but doing exercises to strengthen

your quadriceps after you've had knee replacement surgery due to

osteoarthritis is critical to your recovery. In fact, it can boost the

function of your new knee to nearly that of a healthy adult your age.

That's the finding of a University of Delaware study published in the

February issue of Arthritis Care & Research.

The authors include Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Alumni Distinguished

Professor of Physical Therapy at the University of Delaware,

Petterson, clinical faculty at Columbia University, Mizner, an

assistant professor at Eastern Washington University,

s, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at

Denver, and Drs. Leo Raisis, Bodenstab, and Newcomb of

First State Orthopaedics in Newark, Delaware.

" It sounds logical that exercises to strengthen your knee should be a

component of your post-operative physical therapy after a total knee

replacement, but it's not the convention at all, " says Snyder-Mackler.

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