A randomized trial to compare exercise treatment methods for patients after total knee replacement: protocol paper.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the outcome of total knee replacement (TKR) is favorable, surgery alone fails to resolve the functional limitations and physical inactivity that existed prior to surgery. Exercise is likely the only intervention capable of improving these persistent limitations, but exercises have to be performed with intensity sufficient to promote significant changes, at levels that cannot be tolerated until later stages post TKR. The current evidence is limited regarding the effectiveness of exercise at a later stage post TKR. To that end, this study aims to compare the outcomes of physical function and physical activity between 3 treatment groups: clinic-based individual outpatient rehabilitative exercise during 12 weeks, community-based group exercise classes during 12 week

SUBMITTER: Piva SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4609104 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature