Week 8

Literature review is crucial for understanding the importance and getting information about previous development...

A literature review is a body of text that aims to review the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources, and as such, do not report any new or original experimental work....

These are some journal that I have read:

1. Cheryl Rudisile, The effect of continuous passive motion on knee flexion, pain, and function after total knee arthroplast, School of Physical Therapy, Pacific University, 1-1-2011.

- The outcome measures used in these studies addressed the clinical question. Knee flexion ROM, pain, and function are the three main outcomes pertinent to patients who have had a TKA. Both studies addressed these outcomes with appropriate measurement tools.

2. Connor C, Berk DM. Continuous passive motion as an alternative treatment for iatrogenic hallux limitus. J Foot Ankle Surg. 1994 33: 177 – 179.

- KJT reduced the pain, and joint mobility was sufficiently restored to prevent a second surgery, even when the therapy was started 6 months after surgery. These findings lead one to speculate that if KJT, although passive, could improve ROM in subjects with surgical complications; the motion would aid functional recovery in people who had no complications following common corrective procedures of hallux valgus.

3. Milne S, Brosseau L, Robinson V, Noel M, Davis J, Drouin H, Wells G, Tugwell P (2003) Continuous passive motion following total knee arthroplasty.Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2:CD004260.

- KJT combined with PT, may offer beneficial results compared to PT alone in the short term rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty.