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A Study to Evaluate the effect of Fatigue on Knee Joint Proprioception and Balance in Healthy Individuals


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1 Shri K K Sheth Physiotherapy College, Rajkot, India
2 Srinivas College of Physiotherapy, Mangalore, India
3 Srinivas College of Physiotherapy, India
     

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Introduction: Balance and proprioceptive testing is more commonly used in clinical settings to evaluate injured athletes to return to activity. Muscle fatigue produces neuromuscular deficiency within the muscle , thus predispose a joint to injury and decrease the athletic performance. A finding of previous studies shows contradictory findings of effect of muscle fatigue on proprioception and balance.

Aims & Objectives: A study to investigate the effect of fatigue on knee joint proprioception and balance in healthy individuals.

Materials & Methods: An observational study was conducted on 30 healthy subjects ( age 18-30 years) from Srinivas college of physiotherapy, Mangalore. Subjects was selected by simple random sampling techniques. Fatigue was induced in the subjects by cycling upto level of exceeding 60% of predicted HRmax (14-17 PRE). Subjects were tested to estimate reproduction error by using weight bearing joint position sense test at 30 0 of knee flexion , by goniometric evaluation accompanied by photographic method and the balance assessment was done on force platform with the measurement of anteroposterior, lateral CoP excursion and stability score in single limb stance, before and after fatigue protocol.

Results: After inducing fatigue,significant reproduction error was found for perception of joint position sense (t=-4.103) with significant changes were found in AP (t=3.997), lat CoP excursion (t=10.949) and stability score (t=11.785) at p>0.05.

Conclusion: A study revealed that moderate exercises can reduce proprioception which affects the neuromuscular control of joint making individual more suspectible to injury.


Keywords

Fatigue, Proprioception, Balance, Dynamic Stability
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Authors

Purvi K. Changela
Shri K K Sheth Physiotherapy College, Rajkot, India
K. Selvamani
Srinivas College of Physiotherapy, Mangalore, India
Ramaprabhu
Srinivas College of Physiotherapy, India

Abstract


Introduction: Balance and proprioceptive testing is more commonly used in clinical settings to evaluate injured athletes to return to activity. Muscle fatigue produces neuromuscular deficiency within the muscle , thus predispose a joint to injury and decrease the athletic performance. A finding of previous studies shows contradictory findings of effect of muscle fatigue on proprioception and balance.

Aims & Objectives: A study to investigate the effect of fatigue on knee joint proprioception and balance in healthy individuals.

Materials & Methods: An observational study was conducted on 30 healthy subjects ( age 18-30 years) from Srinivas college of physiotherapy, Mangalore. Subjects was selected by simple random sampling techniques. Fatigue was induced in the subjects by cycling upto level of exceeding 60% of predicted HRmax (14-17 PRE). Subjects were tested to estimate reproduction error by using weight bearing joint position sense test at 30 0 of knee flexion , by goniometric evaluation accompanied by photographic method and the balance assessment was done on force platform with the measurement of anteroposterior, lateral CoP excursion and stability score in single limb stance, before and after fatigue protocol.

Results: After inducing fatigue,significant reproduction error was found for perception of joint position sense (t=-4.103) with significant changes were found in AP (t=3.997), lat CoP excursion (t=10.949) and stability score (t=11.785) at p>0.05.

Conclusion: A study revealed that moderate exercises can reduce proprioception which affects the neuromuscular control of joint making individual more suspectible to injury.


Keywords


Fatigue, Proprioception, Balance, Dynamic Stability

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