VORTEILE DER KNIEORTHESE*:

  • Dauerhafte Schmerzlinderung
  • Einschränkung der Schmerzmedikation
  • Hinauszögern von Operationen
  • Erhöhung des Aktivitätsgrades
  • Verbesserung der Lebensqualität
  • Schonende, entlastende Behandlung
*Quellen:
  • Dennis et al., 2006. Evaluation of Off-Loading Braces for Treatment of Unicompartmental Knee Arthrosis. J Arthroplasty, 21(4, Supplement), 2 -8.
  • Kutzner et al., 2011. The effect of valgus braces on medial compartment load of the knee joint - in vivo load measurements in three subjects. J Biomech, 44 (7), 1354 -60.
  • Katsuragawa et al., 1999. Change of bone mineral density with valgus knee bracing. Int Orthop, 23 (3), 164-7.
  • Barak et al., 2011. A Wolff in sheep‘s clothing: trabecular bone adaptation in response to changes in joint loading orientation. Bone, 49 (6), 1141 -51.
  • Pollo et al., 2002. Reduction of medial compartment loads with valgus bracing of the osteoarthritic knee. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 30 (3), 414-421.
  • Briggs et al., 2012. Improvement in quality of life with use of an unloader knee brace in active patients with OA. J Knee Surg.
  • Ingvarsson et al., 2009. Patients with moderate and severe knee OA do benefit from using an Unloader knee brace. Copenhagen 2009.
  • Lee et al., 2017. Unloading knee brace is a cost-effective method to bridge and delay surgery in uni-compartmental knee arthritis BMJ.
  • Hjartarson et Toksvig-Larsen, 2018. The clinical effect of an unloader brace on patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a randomized placebo controlled trial with one year follow up. BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 19 (1), 341.