Effect of Manual Lymphatic Drainage After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) on knee swelling and the assumed consequences of swelling after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Primary care hospital.

Bioimpedance spectroscopy for swelling evaluation following total knee arthroplasty: a validation study.

Background: The evaluation of swelling is important for the outcome of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery. The circumference or volume measurements are applicable at the bedside of the patient but are altered by muscular atrophy and the post-surgical dressing. Bioimpedance spectroscopy might overcome these limitations; however, it should be validated.

Bioimpedance for oedema evaluation after total knee arthroplasty.

Background And Purpose: Electrical bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) allows the evaluation of limb extracellular fluid (R0) and total fluid (Rinf). BIS could facilitate post-surgical oedema evaluation after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), as it is easily performed and is non-invasive. However, neither its applicability in this context nor the influence of metallic implants on measurement has been evaluated.