OBJECTIVE The aim of this review was to assess the effectiveness, in terms of pain reduction and functional improvement, and costing of total knee replacement (TKR) for people with osteoarthritis for whom less invasive treatments (such as physiotherapy, analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs, intra-articular steroids, hyaluronic acids, and arthroscopic surgery) have failed. CLINICAL NEED Osteoar...

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the social distribution of total knee joint replacement (TKR) uptake in Australia. We examine associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and TKR performed for diagnosed osteoarthritis 2003-10 for all Australian males and females aged ≥ 30 yr. METHODS Data of primary TKR (n=213,018, 57.4% female) were ascertained from a comprehensive national jo...

Purpose: Total knee replacement (TKR) surgery is performed to reduce pain and improve the function of lower limb. Most current literature focuses on kinematics pre post-TKR, compared healthy controls. However, there limited research exploring hip ankle before after TKR comparing them non-pathological subjects (NP). This study aims explore differences in hip, sagittal frontal planes post-TKR inv...

INTRODUCTION Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) may require total hip replacement (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR). The present study aimed to compare the demographic characteristics and medical costs of RA and OA patients from Taiwan who underwent either THR or TKR. METHODS The medical records of patients who had undergone THR or TKR from 1 January 1996 to 3...

Introduction: Tranexamic Acid (TA) has been shown to decrease peri-operative bleeding in primary lower limb arthroplasty surgery. There are still concerns with regards to the increased risk of thromboembolic events with the use of TA. The aim of this study was to assess whether the use of pre-operative TA increased the incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in Total...

UNLABELLED Osteoarthrosis is the most frequent joint disorder in the world. An increased incidence of total hip replacement (THR) and total knee replacement (TKR) has been noticed recently. AIM To investigate demographic characteristics, comorbidities, surgical factors and postoperative complications of patients who received THR or TKR. MATERIAL AND METHOD Patients aged at least 30 years ho...

Background and purpose - Little is know about patterns of sick leave in connection with total hip and knee joint replacement (THR and TKR) in patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Patients and methods - Using registers from southern Sweden, we identified hip and knee OA patients aged 40-59 years who had a THR or TKR in the period 2004-2012. Patients who died or started on disability pension were e...

BACKGROUND currently, assessment of outcomes after joint replacement is predominantly centred on impairment and activity limitation (e.g. walking), with little consideration of participation restriction. METHOD structured telephone interviews about participation in leisure activities were conducted with 56 total hip replacement (THR) and 60 total knee replacement (TKR) patients before and 1 y...

Importance Black patients with advanced osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee are significantly less likely than white patients to undergo surgery. No strategies have been proved to improve access to surgery for black patients with end-stage OA of the knee. Objective To assess whether a decision aid improves access to total knee replacement (TKR) surgery for black patients with OA of the knee. De...

Total knee replacement (TKR) is an increasingly common surgery among individuals with osteoarthritis (OA). The outcomes of this surgery are positive; yet, many individuals do not fully resume their pre-TKR occupations. Literature is limited to describing the activity changes that occur but does not investigate the significance of those changes. A secondary analysis of eight purposively extracte...