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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 75, Issue 2 202-214, Copyright © 1993 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

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Motor recovery after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy. Analyses of gait and the ascent and descent of stairs

A Durand, CL Richards, F Malouin and G Bravo
Neurobiology Research Center, Hopital de l'Enfant-Jesus, Quebec.

We studied motor recovery as shown by locomotor activities after arthroscopic partial medial meniscectomies in seventeen men who were twenty-five to forty-nine years old. The patients were evaluated before the operation and two, four, and eight weeks after the operation. Control values were obtained from twenty-two healthy men whose ages, weights, and heights were similar to those of the patients who had had a meniscectomy. Motion of the hip, knee, and ankle in the sagittal plane and the electromyographic activities (as measured with surface electrodes) in five muscles were recorded while each subject walked on a level walkway and then ascended and descended stairs at free speeds. The results showed that meniscal tears affect the motor-control mechanisms involved in the submaximum locomotor activities that were studied and that these abnormalities may persist for as long as eight weeks after a meniscectomy.
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