Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Range of motion after artificial total knee replacement is the key to evaluate whether the patients are satisfied with the treatment or not, as well as the main outcome measures of functional recovery of joint knee.
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the trends in the field of joint activity after artificial total knee replacement and to explore the influence factors of joint activity after artificial total knee replacement.
METHODS: A total of 244 research articles are found by searching related literature on joint activity after artificial total knee replacement in CNKI database by the author, with the key words of “Knee”, “Artificial joint”, “Artificial prosthesis” and “Range of motion” both in Chinese and English, from 2002 to 2011. A total of 211 related articles were included in the final analysis according to inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. The influence factors were analyzed from the aspects of the joint activity before knee replacement, type of prosthesis and rehabilitation training after replacement.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The number of research literature related to joint activity after artificial total knee replacement was gradually increased in CNKI over the past decade among which 2010 is the most productive year (n=38, 18.0%). According to the key words, knee replacement was widely used in the treatment of osteoarthritis disease, but the fund of related research literature was far from being enough. Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research published the most related articles with the help of the column of hard tissue implants (n=41, 19.4%). The bibliometric analysis provides valuable reference for Chinese medical workers in the field of artificial total knee replacement. There are many factors influencing joint activity after artificial total knee replacement, as well as lots of controversies. Clinicians should continuously improve the treatment techniques and rehabilitation training methods to recover the function of joint knee in patients.