protected load
Nowadays there are many proposal addressed to the recovery of deambulatory activity for patients with desease of knee cartilage.
Even with the awareness that cartilage lesions tend not to heal and to degenerate into osteoarthritis, literature contains a lot of rehabilitative approaches, directed to the development of eccentric strength , to an adequate muscole trophism , to the early mobilization, ecc..
From a careful analysis of existing protocols and in particular of a study on the mechanical characteristics of cartilage tissue with specific reference to the concepts of "anisotropy" and "adaptability" , the protected load system has been developed ,based on the use , in motion rehabilitation activity , of a Ktj brace to guarantee the respect of the perpendicular load and of joints in synergy with the deambulatory activity planned depending on the exploitation of physiological laws that regulate the process of organic adaptation (or rehabilitation).
The proposed methodology has been applied for more than 10 years at the Center of Sport Medicine of Trieste on athletes and not, particulary on subjects included in an age range from 40 to 60 years presenting problems resulting from the knee osteoarthritis.
The results were very positive and led to further develop a working protocol that allow to create the best conditions to awake those chain of physiological responses that tend to lead to a repowering of the articular cartilage tissue.
The protected load system was structured as a rehabilitation protocol after cartilaginous/articular trauma of the knee with the aim to offer a
- mechanical defense with the use of Ktj brace to ensure the full respect of joints, the vertical load and the load reduction during deambulation (resulting in reduction or disappearance of pain)
- defense against stress overload proposing a load quantity programming (understood as speed of deambulation , distance to go and recovery time) organized in accordance with the laws regulating organic adaptation to activity in motion.
The protected load system is composed by
- KTJ brace – mechanical protection of the knee
- Tapis roullant
- Top7 KTJ
Even with the awareness that cartilage lesions tend not to heal and to degenerate into osteoarthritis, literature contains a lot of rehabilitative approaches, directed to the development of eccentric strength , to an adequate muscole trophism , to the early mobilization, ecc..
From a careful analysis of existing protocols and in particular of a study on the mechanical characteristics of cartilage tissue with specific reference to the concepts of "anisotropy" and "adaptability" , the protected load system has been developed ,based on the use , in motion rehabilitation activity , of a Ktj brace to guarantee the respect of the perpendicular load and of joints in synergy with the deambulatory activity planned depending on the exploitation of physiological laws that regulate the process of organic adaptation (or rehabilitation).
The proposed methodology has been applied for more than 10 years at the Center of Sport Medicine of Trieste on athletes and not, particulary on subjects included in an age range from 40 to 60 years presenting problems resulting from the knee osteoarthritis.
The results were very positive and led to further develop a working protocol that allow to create the best conditions to awake those chain of physiological responses that tend to lead to a repowering of the articular cartilage tissue.
The protected load system was structured as a rehabilitation protocol after cartilaginous/articular trauma of the knee with the aim to offer a
- mechanical defense with the use of Ktj brace to ensure the full respect of joints, the vertical load and the load reduction during deambulation (resulting in reduction or disappearance of pain)
- defense against stress overload proposing a load quantity programming (understood as speed of deambulation , distance to go and recovery time) organized in accordance with the laws regulating organic adaptation to activity in motion.
The protected load system is composed by
- KTJ brace – mechanical protection of the knee
- Tapis roullant
- Top7 KTJ