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What is a CPM and what does it do?
Your doctor has prescribed a home Continuous Passive Motion (aka CPM) device to aid in your rehabilitation. A CPM moves your joint passively and provides many benefits following your surgery.
Including:
- Minimizes formation of adhesions (scar tissue)
- Decreases pain and swelling
- Decreases overall joint stiffness
- Increases nutrition to the joint
- Maintains the joint range of motion that you, your doctor and therapist are trying to achieve
Knee CPM
The CPM should only be used under the supervision of your physician. The only way the CPM device will help in your rehabilitation is for you to use it in accordance with your doctor’s prescription.
CPM User Manuals:
Additional CPM Resources:
CPM studies:
Basic Science Cartilage Restoration Part 1
Chondral Resurfacing and High Tibial Osteotomy in the Varus Knee
Complex Knee Reconstruction: Articular Cartilage Treatment Options
Continuous Passive Motion Causes Chondrocyte Production of Joint Lubricant
Arthroscopic Treatment of the Arthrofibrotic Knee
Outcomes of Microfracture for Traumatic Chondral Defects of the Knee