Patient Compliance with Clinical Follow-up After Total Joint Arthroplasty

Patient compliance with clinical follow-up after total joint arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND Periodic clinical and radiographic evaluation is commonly recommended by orthopaedic surgeons to monitor patients following total joint arthroplasty, yet the compliance with and efficacy of patient follow-up protocols have not been well defined. The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient compliance with early clinical follow-up after total hip arthroplasty or total knee arthro...

The follow-up posturography in rehabilitation after total hip arthroplasty.

PURPOSE Presentation of the results of clinical study on new supplementary method applied in the physical rehabilitation of patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty. The standard rehabilitation program was supplemented with the lower limb loading symmetry training based on the follow-up posturography with an adaptively modified visual biofeedback, performed on a double plate posturographic...

Early follow-up after primary total knee and total hip arthroplasty with rapid recovery : Focus groups.

Rapid recovery protocols reduce the length of hospital stay after Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) and Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA). However, little is known about the early postoperative phase. The purpose of this study was to examine which problems patients encountered during the first six weeks after primary TKA or THA surgery with rapid recovery. We invited twenty patients for a focus group me...

Total Hip Arthroplasty with Biomec Prosthesis: 20-year Follow-up.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical and radiological outcomes from total hip arthroplasty using the Biomec prosthesis over a 20-year period (1988 to 2009). METHODS The patients were evaluated clinically in accordance with the Merle d'Aubigné and Postel functional classification, and underwent anteroposterior (AP) radiography of the pelvis and the operated joint in lateral view. The variables ev...

Compliance with Sleep Instructions After Total Hip Arthroplasty