Assessment of functional impairment after knee anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using cardiorespiratory parameters: a cross-sectional study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Antonio Carlos da Silva⁴  Moisés Cohen³  Fernanda Patti Nakamoto⁴  Rodrigo Luiz Vancini¹  Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira²  Marília Santos Andrade⁴ 

[1] Centro de Educação Física e Desporto, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santos, Vitória, Brazil;Setor de Fisiologia Humana e do Exercício, Faculdade de Educação Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil;Departamento de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

关键词: Oxygen uptake;    Heart rate;    Physiological responses;    Knee injury rehabilitation;   

Others  :  1125729
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2474-15-163

 received in 2013-07-09, accepted in 2014-05-15,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

A dynamic sub-maximum exercise with the same absolute intensity, performed with different muscle groups, may present exacerbated cardiorespiratory responses. Therefore, cardiorespiratory responses to unilateral exercise may identify bilateral differences. The purpose of this study was to verify whether the cardiorespiratory responses to lower limb exercise display counter-lateral differences, and if they could be used to assist athletes and health professionals involved in rehabilitation.

Methods

Nine individuals participated in this cross-sectional study. They had been treated in a private rehabilitation clinic and submitted to intra-articular reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. The cycling exercise with the same sub-maximal intensity and with one lower limb was used to gather data. Cardiorespiratory responses to exercise were compared between exercises performed with the involved and uninvolved limb after five minutes of exercise.

Results

Cardiorespiratory responses to exercise performed with the involved limb presented higher values after five minutes of cycling: oxygen uptake (+7%), carbon dioxide production (+10%)_, minute ventilation (+20%), breathing frequency (+19%), ventilatory equivalent for oxygen (+14%), end-tidal pressure of O₂ oxygen (+4%), end-tidal pressure of O₂ carbon dioxide (-9%) and heart rate (+9%).

Conclusions

The exacerbated responses, including increase of the ventilatory equivalent and decrease of end-tidal pressure of carbon dioxide_, indicate that this exercise protocol may be useful in the characterization of the functional deficit of the surgical limb during rehabilitation.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Andrade et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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