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AFTER MACI
Evidence / Sources / E30

Early NMES to improve quadriceps muscle strength after TKA

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What it can tell you

That early NMES attenuated quadriceps strength loss and improved function after total knee arthroplasty in a randomized trial.

What it cannot

Anything about MACI — different operation, different patient age profile, different rehabilitation constraints. On this site it appears only under the different-surgery flag.

Everything on this site that leans on E30 — 5 claims
Program · Stage II (patellofemoral)“Neuromuscular electrical stimulation — Studied in ACL reconstruction and knee replacement, not in cartilage repair. Worth asking your PT about rather than assuming it transfers.”Program · Stage II (tibiofemoral)“Neuromuscular electrical stimulation — Studied in ACL reconstruction and knee replacement, not in cartilage repair — the canonical tibiofemoral protocol prescribes it from those li…”Exercise Library · Neuromuscular electrical stimulation“The randomized and review evidence for neuromuscular electrical stimulation after knee surgery comes from ACL reconstruction and total knee arthroplasty, not from cartilage repair.”What we don't know · № 07“No supporting modality — CPM dose, bracing, NMES, hydrotherapy, blood-flow restriction, proprioceptive work — has ever been isolated as a variable in cartilage repair.”Why this · Why a stimulation machine, and why it is worth asking about the dose“Electrical stimulation is prescribed here for the activation deficit rather than for strength directly, and its evidence comes from ACL reconstruction and knee replacement rather t…”
Read it like a sceptic
TKA quadriceps inhibition is driven by arthritic joints and prosthetic surgery; the transfer to young cartilage-repair knees is assumed, not shown.
Population
TKA — a different population from MACI itself. Wherever this source appears, that flag appears with it.
Selection policy
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