Exercise- and education-based prehabilitation before total knee arthroplasty: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the feasibility and estimates of effects of a supervised exercise- and education-based prehabilitation programme aiming to improve knee functioning compared with usual care in patients awaiting total knee arthroplasty.

Design

A randomized controlled pilot study.

Subjects

Patients receiving primary, unilateral total knee arthroplasty.

Methods

Patients randomized to the intervention group participated in a personalized 4-8-week prehabilitation programme before surgery. Feasibility of the intervention and self-reported knee functioning, pain, physical performance and hospital stay were assessed at baseline, immediately preoperatively, 6 and 12 weeks after surgery.

Results

Twenty patients (mean age 72.7±5.95 years) were enrolled in thi

SUBMITTER: Granicher P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10859968 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature