Patients Must Re-learn Going From Sitting To Standing After Total Knee Replacement

New research indicates that patients who have undergone total knee arthroplasty need to re-learn the proper techniques of moving from a sitting to standing position. Because most patients with knee replacement have lived with debilitating pain for years, they work around the pain by adopting different strategies to avoid using their weakened quadriceps femoris muscle when going from a sit-to-a-stand position.

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