Early neuromuscular electrical stimulation to improve quadriceps muscle strength after total knee arthroplasty: A randomized controlled trial

Physical Therapy

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-226

  Stevens Lapsley, Jennifer E ^a   Balter, Jaclyn E ^b   Wolfe, Pamela ^b   Eckhoff, Donald G ^b   Kohrt, Wendy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856756100     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20110124     Document Type: Article

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