The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2008;90:1172.
doi:10.2106/JBJS.9005.ebo2
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Evidence-Based Orthopaedics

Physiotherapy Exercise Provides Short-Term Functional Benefit After Total Knee Arthroplasty

Minns Lowe CJ, Barker KL, Dewey M, Sackley CM. Effectiveness of Physiotherapy Exercise After Knee Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. BMJ. 2007 Oct 20;335:812.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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Question: In patients with osteoarthritis, how effective is physiotherapy exercise in improving outcomes after elective total knee arthroplasty (TKA)?

Data sources: AMED (from 1985), CINAHL (from 1982), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (from 1974), Kings Fund Database (from 1979), MEDLINE (from 1966), The Cochrane Library, PEDro physiotherapy evidence database, and the National Research Register of the United Kingdom Department of Health; hand searches of Physiotherapy, Physical Therapy, and the conference proceedings of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British); and reference lists of included trials.

Study selection and assessment: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that compared supervised physiotherapy exercise with usual care after discharge for elective TKA in patients with osteoarthritis or that compared 2 different types of relevant physiotherapy intervention. Usual care referred to the continuation at home of exercise programs that had been provided to patients during the hospital stay. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Robert B. Bourne, MD

London Health Sciences
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada


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