Open AccessDo Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients Have a Higher Activity Level Compared to Patients With Osteoarthritis?
Author(s) -
Timothy L. Kahn,
Ran Schwarzkopf
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
geriatric orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2151-4593
pISSN - 2151-4585
DOI - 10.1177/2151458516654518
Subject(s) - medicine , osteoarthritis , total knee arthroplasty , physical activity , physical therapy , arthroplasty , surgery , alternative medicine , pathology
Despite the alleviation of osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms that total knee arthroplasty (TKA) provides for patients with end-stage knee OA, recent studies have suggested that TKA may not increase physical activity levels. In this study, we compare the physical activity levels of patients with OA treated nonoperatively (non-TKA) with both patients who had received TKA (post-TKA) and patients who received TKA within 3 years of data collection (pre-TKA).