Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 7 , Pages 885-890, July 2007

Sports Activities and Endurance Capacity of Bone Tumor Patients After Rotationplasty

  • Axel Hillmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Orthopaedic Department, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Axel Hillmann, MD, Dept of Orthopedics, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Krumenauer Str. 24, 85049 Ingolstadt, Germany
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  • Roger Weist, MD

      Affiliations

    • Trauma and Orthopaedic Department, General Hospital Eilbek Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Albert Fromme, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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  • Klaus Völker, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Sports Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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  • Dieter Rosenbaum, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Movement Analysis Lab, Orthopeadic Department, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.

Abstract 

Hillmann A, Weist R, Fromme A, Völker K, Rosenbaum D. Sports activities and endurance capacity of bone tumor patients after rotationplasty.

Objectives

To investigate the preferred types of sports activities of patients with rotationplasty and to measure their physiologic performance characteristics through treadmill ergometry.

Design

Cross-sectional, descriptive analysis and repeated measures of different velocities.

Setting

Biomechanics research laboratory.

Participants

Patients (n=61) with rotationplasty after bone tumor surgery, 30 of whom participated in a functional trial (treadmill), and a control group (n=20).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main Outcome Measures

Patients’ participation in sports compared with that of the healthy population, treadmill performance at 2 or 3 different speeds, heart rate, lactate accumulation, oxygen consumption, ventilatory equivalent, efficiency, respiratory minute volume, and respiratory quotient.

Results

High activity in sports participation (85%) in most common sports (8 competitive, 17 sports club members, the remaining subjects were recreational athletes). At the same treadmill speed, lactate accumulation and all cardiorespiratory functions were higher in rotationplasty patients than in the control group.

Conclusions

Patients can re-engage in a high level of physical activity after rotationplasty for bone tumor treatment. This physical activity is necessary if patients want to maintain or improve a desired level of sports activity.

Key Words: Bone neoplasms, Cardiovascular system, Ergometry, Physical endurance, Rehabilitation, Sports, Treadmill test

 

 Supported by the Deutsche Krebshilfe e.V. – Mildred-Scheel-Stiftung.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)00292-4

doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2007.04.004

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 88, Issue 7 , Pages 885-890, July 2007

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