Les principes de rééducation après ligamentoplastie fémoro-patellaire
Stéphane Fabri, Franck Lacaze, Thierry Marc, Arnaud Constantinides
Kinésithér Scient 2013,0548:37-42 - 10/11/2013
The femoro-patellar ligament reconstruction is an adjusted operation for trochlean dysplasia, but this surgical gesture stay unfamiliar with physical therapists. To make sure rehabilitation is well performed, progression must adapt to the patient and not the opposite, with targets that match postoperative stages. First stage begins in hospital environment. The aim will be to give again a functional independence to the patient, to have good conditions to go back home. The second stage begins in liberal physical therapist office at around the fourth day after surgery and ends at the third week. At this stage, the patient will have to walk without the help of devices during daily activities. The stage from the third to the sixth week after surgery is mainly characterized by muscular capacity development, required for imposed load on the knee, and for the extension apparel in daily activities. The patient must have, around the forty-fifth day after surgery, a knee that authorized functionally a recovery of professional activities, said of sedentary category (desk work, teaching...). Last stage of rehabilitation is directed on the functional capacity development to allow sports recovery in good terms, after the third month is over. Fisher's literature magazine highlights a lack in rehabilitation protocol after femoro-patellar ligamentoplasty. Our experience qualify this rehabilitation rather specialized. Physical therapy that we use is based on biomechanical concepts and techniques described for other knees pathologies, with the permanent worry to adapt to clinical state of the patient's knee.