Velocity-controlled Knee Movements in Patients with Compression Myelopathy.

• SAIRYO Koichi

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• IKATA Takaaki

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• KATOH Shinsuke

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• SAKAI Toshinori

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• MISHIRO Takuya

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• TERAI Tomoya

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

• HIBINO Naohito

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 圧迫性脊髄症患者の客観的下肢機能評価　　膝関節等速性運動における発揮筋力の角速度特異性
• 膝関節等速性運動における発揮筋力の角速度特異性

Abstract

We studied velocity-controlled voluntary knee movements in 18 patients with compression myelopathy (11 males and 7 females). Mean age was 60.9 years old (range: 49 to 74 years). The patients were divided into F group (free gait, n=13) and S group (gait with support, n=5). Isometric peak torque values were measured in knee flexor and extensor muscles, and isokinetic peak torque values were determined in maximal voluntary concentric movements of those muscles at constant angle-velocities of 40, 80, 120, 160 and 180 degree/sec. The relative strength (% of isometric peak torque value) of the isokinetic motion was then calculated. The isometric strength of the knee flexor and extensors was larger in the F group than in the S group. This may suggest that the muscles in the S group had undergone disuse atrophy. In both groups, the relative strength decreased as the velocity increased, and, the degree of reduction in strength of the flexors at the high velocities of 160 and 180 degree/sec was significantly (p<0.05) greater in the S group than in the F group. These results indicated that isokinetic strength at a high velocity might reflect the gait ability in patients with compression myelopathy.

Journal

• The Journal of the Chugoku-Shikoku Orthopaedic Association

  The Journal of the Chugoku-Shikoku Orthopaedic Association 11 (2), 279-282, 1999

  The Chugoku-Shikoku Orthopaedic Association

Keywords

• Isokinetic Exercise
• Knee
• Compression Myelopathy

Details

• CRID: 1390001204349044736
• NII Article ID: 130003625282
• NII Article ID: 10013806296
• NII Book ID: AN10402449
• DOI: 10.11360/jcsoa1989.11.279
• ISSN: 13475606
• ISSN: 09152695
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2000061090
• Text Lang: ja
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