Publications by authors named "K Bennell"
Introduction: We compared the 12-months effects of arthroscopic surgery and physiotherapist-led care for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) syndrome on the time-varying magnitude of hip contact force and muscle contributions to hip contact force during walking.
Methods: Secondary analysis was performed on thirty-seven individuals with FAI syndrome who received biomechanical assessment before and 12-months following either arthroscopic surgery (n = 17) or physiotherapist-led care (Personalised Hip Therapy, PHT) (n = 20). At both time points, three-dimensional whole-body motions, ground reaction forces, and surface electromyograms (n = 14) were acquired during overground walking.
Article Synopsis
- Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant health problem that leads to chronic pain and decreased quality of life, with exercise being a recommended self-management strategy as there is currently no cure.
- This review evaluates the effectiveness of land-based exercise for knee OA in three ways: comparing it to control groups, to no treatment/usual care, and in combination with other interventions.
- A total of 139 randomized controlled trials involving over 12,000 participants were analyzed, focusing on outcomes like pain relief, physical function, and quality of life, with exercise interventions ranging from 2 to 104 weeks in duration.
Objective: Determine whether there is a relationship between the number of different lower-limb resistance exercises prescribed in a program and outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis.
Methods: Systematic review with meta-regression. We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, and Embase up to 4th January 2024.
Background: Many outcome measures used in lower-limb osteoarthritis (OA) present ceiling effects. This compromises the ability of those measures to accurately assess people with higher levels of physical function. Understanding of the difficulty and importance of physical activities would enable the inclusion of challenging and meaningful activities in new outcome measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The most effective exercise variables for rotator cuff tendinopathy are unknown.
Objective: Determine feasibility of a fully powered trial comparing high load-volume versus low load-volume exercise for adults with rotator cuff tendinopathy.
Design: Two arm, multi-centre pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial.