Protocol for the Functional Evaluation of Patients with Knee Injury Treated in a Local Rehabilitation Centre

MARENGO, BRUNO; BONELL, CLAUDIA EDITH; DURÉ, CAMILA ILEANA; PEROTTI, GERMÁN; SAVIO, JULIO; CATALFAMOFORMENTO, PAOLA

IFMBE PROCEEDINGS

Springer Nature

Año: 2020 vol. 75 p. 907 - 912

1680-0737

Abstract. The pathologies and injuries of the knee are a common problem in theclinical field. There are numerous tests that allow to evaluate in a standardizedway the results of the rehabilitation, nevertheless in the medical center where thepresent work was developed, the evaluation was carried out by treating clinicianswithout following protocolized and documented criteria. For this reason, a protocolwas developed that consisted of a first part that uses the IKDC test and aconventional videographic method to obtain spatio-temporal parameters. Theprotocol was applied for six patients attending the rehabilitation centre, theindices proposed by the IKDC test and the spatio-temporal parameters werecalculated: step time, stance time, cadence and symmetry. It was concluded thatthe IKDC test provided useful information that allowed recording the evolutionin the rehabilitation, to document it, and to complement the patient?s clinicalhistory. Spatio-temporal parameters, on the other hand, did not provide moreinformation for the patients studied. However, the information provided by theseparameters contributed tools to quantify the qualitative observations made inpatients by treating physicians. Finally, a survey was carried out to the personnelof the institution to evaluate the proposed protocol, which resulted in the decisionto implement it routinely for the assessment of the patients of the institution.