Publications by authors named "Jiehang Lu"
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- - The study investigates the effects of massage therapy on pain and biomechanical factors in individuals with medial knee osteoarthritis (KOA), finding that massage significantly reduces pain and improves function.
- - Fifteen participants underwent a six-week massage treatment, with results showing improvements in pain, stiffness, walking speed, and knee joint movement, but no significant changes in external knee adduction moment (EKAM).
- - Overall, while massage therapy effectively alleviates symptoms and decreases muscle co-contraction, it does not impact EKAM, suggesting that reduced muscle co-contraction may be a contributing factor to pain relief.
Quantitative three-dimensional gait analysis has been used to evaluate the loading at the knee (i.e. external knee adduction moment, EKAM) during level ground walking in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aims to quantitatively assess the relationship between the patella alignment and morphology and knee osteoarthritis (KOA), as well as the kinematics and kinetics of the knee, using gait analysis.
Methods: Eighty age-matched patients with KOA and control subjects were evaluated. Incident radiographic osteoarthritis (iROA) was identified using a Kellgren-Lawrence (KL) grade of ≥ 2.
The influence of patella morphology and horizontal alignment on knee joint kinematics and kinetics remains uncertain. This study aimed to assess patella morphology and transverse alignment in relation to knee kinetics and kinematics in individuals without knee conditions. A secondary objective was to investigate the impact of femur and tibia alignment and shape on knee gait within this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale And Objectives: The purpose of this study is to delineate cross-sectional associations between qualitative and quantitative measures of the infrapatellar fat pad (IPFP) and knee symptoms, structure, kinematics, and kinetics in older adults.
Methods: Ninety eligible subjects (90 knees, mean age 54.0 years, 68.
Skeletal muscle injuries are widespread in sports, traffic accidents and natural disasters and some of them with poor prognoses can lead to chronic skeletal muscle damage in the clinic. We induced a chronic skeletal muscle injury by controlling time and contusion force using an acute blunt trauma model that will help us better comprehend the pathological features of chronic skeletal muscle injury. Several levels of injury were induced by repeatedly striking in 5, 10, and 15 times the gastrocnemius muscle from the same height with 200 g weights.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Systematic review and Meta-analysis of Gusongbao preparation in treatment of primary osteoporosis].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi
June 2023
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- * The results indicate that combining Gusongbao preparation with conventional treatment significantly improves lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density, reduces low back pain, and enhances overall clinical efficacy compared to conventional treatment alone.
- * However, Gusongbao preparation performed worse than similar Chinese patent medicines in reducing syndrome scores, while the incidence of adverse reactions was generally comparable between Gusongbao and other treatments.
Backward walking (BW) has been recommended as a rehabilitation intervention to prevent, manage, or improve diseases. However, previous studies showed that BW significantly increased the first vertical ground reaction force (GRF) during gait, which might lead to higher loading at the knee. Published reports have not examined the effects of BW on medial compartment knee loading.
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