Femoral Cartilage Thickness In Patients With Lower Limb Amputation

Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Femoral Cartilage Thickness In Patients With Lower Limb Amputation

The aim of the study to investigate any relation with functional parameters and femoral cartilage thickness evaluation by ultrasonography in lower extremity amputate individuals.

In this prospective observational study, subjects approached Tertiary Rehabilitation Clinics for prothesis recipe or long term outpatient follow up was 150 people. Among them 76 subjects accepted to enroll study. Informed consent was taken. Subjects firstly performed clinical parameters at the first doctor's control. Knee radiography has been performed.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a single lower limb amputation
• At least one year after the amputation operation
• Prosthesis use for the last 6 months
• Being traumatic or vascular
• Not having stump infection
• Muscle strength over stump should be at least 3/5

Exclusion Criteria:

• Doing quadriceps exercise in the last 3 months
• Trauma, surgery, and knee injections within 6 months (PRP, hyaluronic acid), Chondroitin-glucosamine use.

Being any of the active synovitides, Rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis, pseudogout, coxarthrosis, neuromuscular diseases

• Having an additional disease that will cause psychiatric adjustment problem
• Subjects are younger than 18 years
• Bilateral amputated