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Biofeedback training for partial weight bearing in patients after total hip arthroplasty
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Pataky, Zoltan
De Leon Rodriguez, Diego
Golay, Alain
Assal, Mathieu
Assal, Jean-Philippe
Hauert, Claude-Alain
Published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2009, vol. 90, no. 8, p. 1435-8
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a new biofeedback training method based on visual delivery of information in patients after total hip arthroplasty (THA). DESIGN: Intervention study with prepost design. SETTING: Hospitalized care in a university referral center. PARTICIPANTS: Patients (N=11) (age 56.1+/-9.0 y) shortly after THA. INTERVENTION: A mobile system has been used for biofeedback training with the predefined partial weight bearing (PWB) threshold of 20 kg. After the learning period, 4 retention tests, consisting of 3 successive walking cycles without feedback, were recorded for each patient: (1) acquisition test, (2) early retention test (after 30 min), (3) the day after, and (4) after 2 days. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: The pressure error and the maximum pressure force at each step before and after biofeedback training. RESULTS: A significant difference of pressure errors between the beginning and the end of the learning period has been measured (42.5+/-22.5 N vs 3.7+/-11.4N, P<.001). However, there was no difference between the beginning of the learning period and different retention tests (after 30 minutes, after 1 day, after 2 days). In terms of maximal pressure force, there was a difference between the beginning and the end of learning (251 N vs 195 N, P<.05). The retention tests did not show significant differences compared with the baseline values. CONCLUSIONS: THA patients were able to use the defined PWB during a short period of time and shortly after stopping the training; both the pressure errors and the maximal pressure force attended the values before training. These results confirm the difficulties to achieve PWB in patients after THA.
Keywords Adult — Aged — Analysis of Variance — Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip/rehabilitation — Biofeedback, Psychology — Humans — Intervention Studies — Middle Aged — Walking/physiology — Weight-Bearing/physiology
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PMID: 19651281
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de chirurgie
Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et de médecine communautaires
Research groups Développement et apprentissages moteurs
Education thérapeutique du patient, diabète et obésité (600)
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(ISO format) 		PATAKY, Zoltan et al. Biofeedback training for partial weight bearing in patients after total hip arthroplasty. In: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2009, vol. 90, n° 8, p. 1435-8. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:5310

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