Context: Exercise therapy is considered as a basic element of care that can be provided for
patients post-surgery as it could lower need for drugs and promote wound healing and early recovery.
Study aim: Was to evaluate effectiveness of therapeutic exercises program on patients' knowledge,
pain, and knee functional activity post arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament surgery. The study used
a quasi-experimental design, specifically employing a pre/post-test on purposive sample of 110 adult
patients were involved in the study who distributed equally into study and control groups. Setting:
orthopedic outpatient clinics at Benha University Hospital, Qualubyia, Egypt. Tools: Three tools
were utilized for data collection including; I) Patients’ Structured Interview Questionnaire, II)
Anterior Knee Pain Scale “Kujala Scale”, III) Functional Activity Measurement Tool. Results:
clarified that 60.0% of both groups had poor level of total knowledge preprogram implementation,
while post two weeks and post one month of implementation, there was a good knowledge level
among study group (83.6% & 67.3% respectively) compared to control group (12.7% &10.9%
respectively) with a high statistically significant difference. In addition, throughout program phases,
there was a negative and statistically significant correlation between knee pain among studied patients
and their muscle strength as well as activities of daily living. Meanwhile, there was a positive and
highly statistical correlation between knee range of motion and activities of daily living as p value ≤
0.001. |
