Targeting rehabilitation to improve outcomes after total knee arthroplasty in patients at risk of poor outcomes: randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether a progressive course of outpatient physiotherapy offers superior outcomes to a single physiotherapy review and home exercise based intervention when targeted at patients with a predicted poor outcome after total knee arthroplasty.

Design

Parallel group randomised controlled trial.

Setting

13 secondary and tertiary care centres in the UK providing postoperative physiotherapy.

Participants

334 participants with knee osteoarthritis who were defined as at risk of a poor outcome after total knee arthroplasty, based on the Oxford knee score, at six weeks postoperatively. 163 were allocated to therapist led outpatient rehabilitation and 171 to a home exercise based protocol.

Interventions

All participants were reviewed by a physiot

SUBMITTER: Hamilton DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7551789 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature