We describe an accelerated rehab protocol (AR) instituted at a community based hospital. All patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) were included. The AR consisted of preoperative patient education, standardization of perioperative pain management, therapy, ...
Total knee arthroplasty using patient-specific instrumentation (TKA-PSI), which are disposable cutting block guides generated to fit each patient’s 3-dimensional knee anatomy, has been developed to treat patients with end-stage osteoarthritis of the knee. Surrogate markers such as radiographic malalign...
This randomized clinical trial of older patients with knee osteoarthritis evaluates the effect of prehabilitation on functional independence and activity
This was a single institutional study of 35,963 primary and revision total hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients operated between 2009 and 2020. Fifty-six variables related to demographics, comorbidities, operative factors as well as chemoprophylaxis were included in the analysis. The ...
protocol about 6 days after the surgery when they were able to walk a few meters with the help of two crutches. They performed physical exercise with a physiotherapist 6 days per week, 70 minutes per day. Exercises were focused on recovering optimal passive and active knee range of motion...
You must undergo surgery, rehab takes forever, you can’t walk normally, and the worst thing is no gym for the next six to 12 months. Although Spanish squats are primarily bodyweight exercises, improper knee positioning can lead to excessive pressure. Sometimes, this ends up in nasty ...
As a surgeon with a specialty practice in hip and knee replacement surgery, patients rely on my expertise. Recently, a patient asked me why I no longer use the anterior approach for total hip replacement. I stopped performing this procedure because in my experience there are no advantages to...
One high-quality study68 found decreased knee blood loss and knee circumference and improved knee flexion ROM when comparing the resting position of 30 degrees of hip flexion and 30 degrees of knee flexion with 30 degrees of hip flexion and full knee extension at 3 and 7 days after TKA. The...
INTRODUCTION :Since the development of the last generation of implants total ankle replacements (TAR) is becoming more and more popular in patients and in specialized surgeon teams, the trend for outpatient surgery is growing, and protocols now are well established for hip or knee replacement. We...
Discharge to Inpatient Rehab Does Not Result in Improved Functional Outcomes Following Primary Total Knee Arthroplastyprimary total knee arthroplastyinpatient rehabilitationfunctional outcomesrehabilitationdischarge locationBackground: Monitored rehabilitation has long beenPadgett...