Effects of Relaxation and Guided Imagery on Knee Strength, Reinjury Anxiety, and Pain Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

ABSTRACT. Objective: To examine the effects of relaxation and guided imagery on knee strength, reinjury anxiety, and pain for knee surgery patients. Study Design: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Setting: A sports medicine clinic. Participants: Thirty individuals in rehabilitation for anterio...

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Published in:Rehabilitation psychology 2001-02, Vol.46 (1), p.28-43
Main Authors: Cupal, Deborah D, Brewer, Britton W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Female
Guided Imagery
Human
Injuries
Knee
Male
Pain Perception
Relaxation
Surgical Patients
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Summary:ABSTRACT. Objective: To examine the effects of relaxation and guided imagery on knee strength, reinjury anxiety, and pain for knee surgery patients. Study Design: A randomized controlled clinical trial. Setting: A sports medicine clinic. Participants: Thirty individuals in rehabilitation for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Interventions: Ten relaxation and guided imagery sessions for each treatment group participant; attention, encouragement, and support for placebo group participants; no intervention for control group participants. Main Outcome Measures: Knee strength, reinjury anxiety, and pain. Results: Significantly greater knee strength and significantly less reinjury anxiety and pain for treatment group participants at 24 weeks postsurgery than for placebo and control group participants. Conclusions: Relaxation and imagery may be beneficial to ACL rehabilitation, thus warranting further research on mechanisms of obtained effects.
ISSN:0090-5550
1939-1544
DOI:10.1037/0090-5550.46.1.28